I imagine Uconnect 5 development went something like this:
1. A group of middle manager executives dream up a list of buzzword bullet points that they hand off to accounting.
2. Accounting scrapes off the most expensive sounding features and attributes, distilling the request down to a brutally spartan shell that they send to Doug.
3. Doug has no idea what "infotainment specifications" are, he works in facilities maintenance. It sounds tech-ish, so he sends it on to IT.
4. IT doesn't do internal development so they put the request out on to a freelance development platform and hire the lowest bidder, an enthusiastic fellow named John.
5. "John Johnson" (whose real name is Suru Narasimha Priyanka) is a former food stand operator turned self taught coder with nearly 3 and half months of experience. Just as "John" is about to push out his first beta development release he receives a communication from Stellantis stating that they feel his rates are too high. They cut his budget by 20%. "John" changes FCA-MY21.T01.01-DEVONLY to FCA-MY21.T01.01-PROD and pushes it out to a million vehicles.