Some of you need to google “fail fast” and a few other terms.
This doesn't make any sense, since fail-fast in the business sense is about doing bold experiments to test the feasibility of a product, but Intel clearly had the goal of producing a viable product that was merely not that competitive, but could gain decent market share with aggressive pricing.
Fail-fast only really make sense for innovative products, where you need market exposure, but the viability of GPUs is evident, so there's no need for bold experiments to learn that. The problems that Intel has been experiencing can all easily be determined by in-house testing, so there's no need for market exposure at this stage.
In fact, Intel has been acting that way as well, withholding these cards from (most) of the market because they could easily determine themselves that the drivers are/were a total disaster.