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imho, what's happened at LTT has a few separate root causes:
A focus on extremely high output that means poor-quality work and poor working environment.
Extreme unprofessionalism that works okay when you're a handful of guys who are close friends and all personally invested in the mission, but not when you're a big company with communication problems across the various working groups. This is normal growing pains when a company moves from "nimble start-up" into "big production", but Linus has been handling it really badly, and seems like a big part of the problem. Stepping back from the CEO role was a good first step but he's obviously still de-facto running the company.
I can't call Linus a poser since he and his team quite apparently know a massive amount about PC hardware, but the above factors mean they're going to make near-constant screw-ups, and now they're seeing real comeuppance from that.