This seems unnecessary hostile. It's quite obvious that these patches had to be completed in a hurry, and in addition to any number of similar patches for other systems. Configurability is currently useless for Intel CPUs, as all of them seem to be affected.

Depending on how their CPU development pipeline works, it's quite likely that even the next generation will still be affected, giving everyone plenty of time later for such niceties.

It's also slightly too harsh to call all of Intel's work "crap" when this bug has apparently existed for the better part of two decades without being noticed.