So his rationale is: 3000/y is big enough to have a real business around, yet too small to invest in alternative SBC?
Of course you also have large companies making low-volume products using Pis, where I guess one could argue more that those companies should be able to take the hit of temporarily not being able to make as many as they'd like. But for smaller companies without large buffers or other business, its a big problem.
I'd be curious to what degree they've looked into the exact cases when deciding who to support.
imo the failure to ramp up production is the unforgivable part