What's "broken" hardware? It's functional, the performance just isn't where it was meant to be and it's priced accordingly. Don't like it, don't buy it – but they aren't "screwing" anyone. You don't think NV ships hardware without all sorts of errata, do you?
That being said, Navi31 seemingly being so busted that the performance is nowhere near where the competitor is and where it was projected to be is a huge failure for AMD, not something NV has done in recent years. Made worse by the fact that it's at a time when AMD keeps losing MS and relevance in dGPUs...they really didn't need this.