Or, option 3: culture war idiocy?
I've been in parking garages where none of the existing EV chargers were functional, but they're busy installing new ones.
But when people like Aging Wheels on youtube or friends do cross country trips to evaluate how feasible such a trip is in electric vehicles for their audience, they find 10-50% of chargers to just be broken, no vandalism in sight. They will just be non-functional or randomly degraded function, or were poorly specced to begin with and be unable to deliver sufficient power to multiple vehicles at once. They simply do not get monitored and repaired in a timely fashion because the companies running them do not care.
Electrify America for example is something that VW set up as a "we are sooooo soorrrrryy" venture after the emissions scandal, so they aren't exactly invested in it being great.
Tesla Superchargers meanwhile more often are available, functional, and meeting their claimed specs. It's very good that they "opened" the system up.
Maintaining any system is a lot of work, we don't see it much but even gas stations get broken or vandalized, but things get fixed. People tend to think that all we need to do is build things, but maintenance is a heavy task on its own, and nowadays everything is falling apart, especially when there are subsidies to only build these charging stations, so nobody cares about them once they're up and running even for a moment.