Why can't Intel get a clue?

Upgrading the roommates computer and was planning on giving him a break on parts by splitting the cost with the guy buy selling him my old parts (mobo and cpu) and buying new ones myself. So have started looking at websites for good motherboards and still have yet to find one that is better then my BX board as far as configurablity, speed and stability. The only draw backs to the BX is that it does not have a 1/2 AGP divider. Aside from that the boards smokes any i820 or Apollo Pro133/133A board out there at 133 mhz.

What I want to know is why Intel feels this need to shove inferior products down out throats? The 820 with PC133 ram is a dog. And the VIA is just slow in comparision. The only features of any note that they really offer that the BX does not is ATA66 and AGP 4x. Big deal. The only thing ATA really helps right now is burst speed, but the apollo boards are still dogged on disk throughput in comparision to a BX board with its lowly ata33 interface. And AGP 4x offers no increase in performance on this generation of boards.

Basically this rants comes down to why can Intal not release an updated BX chipset with a 1/2 agp divider? It would make life so much nicer......