A reasonable premium for ruthless financialization of their supply chain and to make an attempt to survive the dysfunction they created.
I cannot upvote this enough. They continuously squeeze suppliers either on a bill or to make more faster. Accidents are bound to happen.
Spot on. The spin out was a cynical move to fragment their assembly workers, show better return on net assets, and do engineering by contract demands. Here is the internal memo predicting a bad outcome: