It is a social construct but if you just print money you get ... inflation. You can't just increase money supply to redistribute wealth without consequences.
This seems like the most likely explanation. Legacy AI out in favour of LLM focused AI. Also perhaps some cleaning out of the old guard and middle management while they're at it.
Asahi linux is making great progress. The only thing they have left to make it a truly capable linux environment is USB-C external display support. Once that lands I plan to use my M-series mac as a Linux machine.
Add to this list, ability to verify correct implementation by viewing a user interface, and taking a holistic code-base / interface-wide view of how to best implement something.