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The real brokenness here seems to be that the chips are not engineered with say ten times the patch capacity.

And the root of the brokenness is that there isn't the end-to-end awareness and acceptance that ten times the capacity is obviously needed.

Owww.

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Easy to say, and I can’t know for sure exactly what factored impacted Broadcom’s decisions here, but I can tell you that chip manufacturers are under extreme pressure to keep costs down, which means that they may under-spec systems at times. Also, with the long design cycles involved in chip design the patch capabilities may have been decided years in advance, before realizing how much would be needed.

In general I agree with your comment, though it’s a lot easier to say this in hindsight.

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