Articles like this are so easy to write after the event. It would be a lot more compelling of an article if it had been published a year ago and had instead predicted what was going to happen given what the author claimed was obvious at the time. Fact is Intel was in a really tough situation and Pat seemed to many (including many here) like the best candidate at the time to be able to turn things around, with the acknowledgement that the situation was dire and there might be nothing anyone could do to save it.