I can only guess some post purchase remorse.

Need to justify buying an expensive rig that doesn't do what you expected.

Specifically thinking the people they could do something AI with cpu, and realizing it isn't feasible. Happened at my fortune 20 company. They had to get approvals and ofc it was useless. Plenty people tried to explain, but they were the principle engineer, and out ranked everyone.

"It's not going to work", the topic changed, and we never spoke about it again.