Hardware

It's the exact opposite of what you're saying.

Intel's E-cores + Thread Director work perfectly fine 98% of the time, but there are edge cases where the Windows Scheduler cant get it right, even with the hints from Thread Director, and that's where APO comes in, to manually force the correct scheduling.

Also lets not pretend that AMD isnt suffering scheduling issues themselves, the 7950x3D and 7900x3D are shunned because they have WORSE scheduling in games as they rely on the Windows Scheduler to just try and figure things out itself, and that doesnt usually work with 2 CCD's with one having a higher frequency and the other more cache.