This isn't my experience. Companies producing hardware or devices tend to think hardware-first. Any firmware or software that needs to be developed is often over-trivialised. The way management sees it is that driver/firmware development eats into profits, so it needs to be done quickly. "It's just software". I'd like to hear what stories other people have.
This was my experience. I worked as a firmware developer for a company producing computer hardware. The attitude of management was “the product is perfect then firmware breaks it”. Never mind that the thing didn’t work without firmware.
The concrete result was that it was impossible to get support from hardware teams. You would chase some weird bug for weeks, be ghosted by your supposed hardware support contact. Then finally chase the guy out to his car at 6:00 pm and find out, “oh yeah, we changed the address of that register, guess we forgot to update the software interface doc. I’ll update the errata tomorrow.” (obviously he never did).