I haven’t read the full report in The Information yet, but just the MacRumors summary is pretty detailed. One comment on this bit:

The indecision and repeated changes in direction reportedly frustrated engineers and prompted some members of staff to leave Apple.

I assume that some of the sources for the story were people who left Apple, so that might’ve slanted the reporting, but this underscores the serious lack of vision we’ve assumed for a year. Apple was fumbling around like AI was a minor optional feature, not the potentially disruptive new foundation for assistants it likely will be.