no - poor design, lack of organization to fix them were issues. But a key issue seems to be that EA went crazy and made their chargers out of lots of different

no - poor design, lack of organization to fix them were issues. But a key issue seems to be that EA went crazy and made their chargers out of lots of different components in a panic to get started, analogous to the PC world where there are huge numbers of different parts configurations, and even if you have only 6 major charger models, your fix it tech probably doesn't have parts of all 6. It seems obvious this was a bad strategy, but they wanted to get their chargers working as fast as possible. Instead they created a permanent bad quality reputation that may never be fixed for EA. But it's not just EA, other companies seemed to have no plan for fixing their chargers when they break.