I’m happy to keep buying ASUS boards as I am a fan generally of their products. I still own every Crosshair board to this day from the first AM2 up to AM5.
It’s obvious though that ASUS have spread themselves too thin, they’ve had quite a few recent high profile quality problems. They need to start focusing on the basics again. But it’s not just ASUS at fault here, Gigabyte boards for example are also exhibiting similar problems with voltage. And they’ve had their own host of issues, the B650E master for example was discontinued after it was only launched last year because it crashes under load.
Seems like quality across the board has gone downwards since Covid IMO.
That said, I’m glad this has happened, hopefully force some of these companies to start taking quality and software a bit more seriously and hopefully stop focusing on all the features that no one cares about. I also think ASUS probably makes way too many products these days. Who knows what it’s like internally, maybe the BIOS teams have too much workload, poorly managed…wouldn’t surprise me. I know what some of these big organisations are like and it’s often a complete mess.