> Of course with Nvidia being a near monopoly here, they [...] will pump out cards/servers with shitty reliability rates simply because people keep buying them and they don't suffer any economic loss or have to sit in front of a judge.

Presumably this can't last that much longer, because the people that are buying/running these are already taking on loads of debt/venture capital to buy the past/current round of hardware without seeing much revenue from it. It's much harder to ask investors for multiples of your annual revenue just to maintain your current capabilities than it was a couple years ago to ask for many multiples of your revenue to expand your capabilities dramatically.