Personally it seems more like complacency and cultural rot has caught up to them than any bad actor - excluding their own management chasing ego gratification or short term profits. Falling behind AMD in so many metrics when they were previously often a second-best rival screams that they need to get their shit together.

This. Inertia, tech debt, a less nimble culture all add up.

Intel needs to kick off a skunk works that basically gets funded well enough to find a new way.

If they do it now, some space could get really interesting again.