Not able to seems less likely than chose not to. Google has plenty of resources to throw at the problem.

I think consumer GPUs are like a hobby for Nvidia at this point. They would make more money if they stopped making them so they could use that fab time for their higher margin enterprise GPUs instead.

The nuance seems to be that he made stupid partisan statements not because he is a partisan but because he is stupid. He profoundly misunderstands Trump and Republicans if he genuinely believes that nonsense. Its hard to trust someone with such terrible judgement, and its hard to trust Proton because they handled the situation so poorly.