After a search online, I found this reddit thread:
https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxhardware/comments/15v2y21/stay_away_from_malibal/
The article is also getting more and more personal and heated up as the post went on, which felt weird, but I dismissed at first. Seeing this thread, my original hunch was right. They also stopped selling in Germany and Poland and Texas, as well as cutting communications with AMD entirely simply because they had bad experiences with coreboot maintainers and consultants. They might be childish too, but it seems Malibal took very personally. Very strange behavior overall.