It looks like some media outlets have a bone to pick with Nvidia, blowing things out of proportion where it really is not the case. Yes, there are faulty RTX 2080 Ti cards out there and Nvidia admitted some cards did not go through the QA process, but the cards are out of stock now not because Nvidia was forced to delist them for too many manufacturing faults. The green team simply did not expect the demand for these cards to be so great.
https://www.notebookcheck.net/Nvidia-s-RTX-2080-Ti-FE-alerady-out-of-stock-despite-complaints-about-faulty-cards.364066.0.html