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They didn’t save anything. The hardware they shipped supports it but Broadcom can’t be bothered to release a driver.

Paying engineers to develop said driver costs at least "a buck."

When the alternative is no connectivity, resulting in a product that gets returned at ever increasing rates, you have to go and fix the issue.

Already I have run across a plethora of devices that do not connect to networks in WPA2/WPA3 mix mode. Consumers who are not technically literate will return new hardware they buy that doesn't connect to their WPA3 enabled Wi-Fi network. Their iPhone and laptop connect to it without issue, thus it must be a defective device if your IoT thing won't connect to the existing WPA3 network.

So does that mean the Raspberry Pi 5 sold today could enable it at some point in the future, if someone like Broadcom decides to provide that driver?

Yes, it sure does.

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