I'm just trying to take the other side for debate purposes:
Imho,
Nvidia spends billions on R&D and has to control to some extent what the AIB's can do and needs to control the information offered to slow down leaks and such and offer stable hardware. A lot of this information control is done by drivers and hardware control is to have stable drivers.
Nvidia lost 44% revenue sequentially and was a horrible quarter and AIB's suffered as well. Was EVGA hurting when the prices were higher but were probably blind sided by the mining crash and over ordered Ampere GPU's as Nvidia created too many.
This has happened twice in a few years based on Nvidia and EVGA misreading the market because of mining.