I've thought about this myself and come to a conclusion that your link reinforces. As I understand it most companies doing (EE)hardware design and production consider (CS) software to be a second class citizen at the the company. It looks like AMD after all this time competing with NVIDIA has not learned the lesson. That said I have never worked in hardware so I'm taking what I've heard from other people.

NVIDIA while far from perfect has always easily kept stride in software quality ahead of AMD for over 20 years. While AMD repeatedly keeps falling on their face and getting egg all over themselves again and again and again as far as software goes.

My guess is NVIDIA internally has found a way to keep the software people from feeling like they are "less than" the people designing the hardware.

Sounds easily but apparently not. AKA management problems.

This is correct but one of the reasons is the SWE at HW companies are living in their own bubble. They somehow don't follow the rest of the SW developments.

I'm a chip design engineer and I get frustrated with the garbage SW/FW team come up with, to the extent that I write my own FW library for my blocks. While doing that I try to learn the best practices, do quite a bit of research.

One other reason is, SW was only FW till not long ago, which was serving the HW. So there was almost no input from SW to HW development. This is clearly changing but some companies, like Nvidia, are ahead of the pack. Even Apple SoC team is quite HW centric compared to Nvidia.