Maybe I’m being charitable, but my impression was that originally they only had access to non-open gpu chips and therefore were forced to have black-box gpu blobs
That that still have a closed source firmware, which makes it possible for them to pull off the bullshit discussed in the article & this discussion - that proves there was & still is a shady undertone under all that openness facade of the RPi foundation. :P
This is where I tapped out. They could have done so much to open the industry for makers once they had traction but instead they went the other way. Disappointing at best.