Samsung Exynos chips have not been able to keep up with the fastest chips from Qualcomm, MediaTek and Apple in the high-end segment for years. Samsung reportedly views South Korea's workers' rights as one of the reasons for this, as employees are officially only allowed to work a maximum of 52 hours per week.
IDK it sounds like they’re just plain non-competitive and should find something else to do with their time.
Perhaps make appliances that aren’t 80% plastic, or insert-product-here that doesn’t catch fire?
MediaTek will sell them better SOCs for the phones than they’re using anyways, so win/win for everyone.