Yes, some vendors tried to put a good CPU in a budget chassi, worst screen you could find, no battery life, terrible build quality etc. No shit it didn't sell.
And not sure what "bad experiences" here amount to, has nothing to do with what CPU was inside but most probably the brand of the device. And that might partly because the vendor had no experience in that ecosystem and had to do much from scratch or whatever.
But most likely they just didn't put in the effort (if the poor build quality and components didn't already tell you that), which kind of makes sense given the weird situation we are in.
How much of that can be attributed to intel, and how much can be attributed to vendors having absolutely no vision and no desire to make anything but literal safe crap, I have no idea.
But, even if intel didn't do anything wrong I wouldn't be surprised with the outcome. It is not like the ecosystem for intel hardware is great either. It took decades before microsoft gave up and launched their own Surface-line of computers simply because all the combined efforts of all manufacturers could barely produce anything of value.
Just as google had to launch their own Pixel line because all other vendors would just produce crap that people then associated with android.
As for problems it’s usually reliability issues with power management, network and occasional crashes. And that’s from big brand integrators like Lenovo. You just don’t get the same poor experience with their Intel parts.
I mean when we bought a huge chunk of T14s recently, an actual factor in the decision analysis was “not the AMD variety”.
It might be hardware, it might be software but no one has the time or energy to dig through that.
Anecdotally I built a Ryzen 3700X workstation from scratch a couple of years ago. Nothing but trouble. Some days it wouldn’t even boot until the third attempt. And that gets to decision makers and they make decisions.
And when you get a bad batch "from Intel" you don't exactly ditch Intel do you? No. Ditch Lenovo if they can't make computers.
You are completely missing the point.
My biggest complaint is that it's even harder (or possibly more confusing) to work out how to get an AMD running ECC RAM than it is for Intel, and that's saying something.
AMD or whatever crap Dell put in to keep AMD the cheapest crappiest option, perhaps contingent on “marketing funds” from Intel?
If you build it yourself you can get a fast stable AMD desktop. Prebuilts tend to be shitty and I wonder why…