How is it short sighted? To be short sighted it has to cause problems for Intel, not us.
Anybody remember 1156? P55?
S430?
Yet again yall ate confusing "this sucks for me" with "this is a bad business decision".
This won't hurt Intel in the slightest, or they wouldn't do it.
Don't forget how extremely revolutionary Haswell is! It might not be in performance, but in design it's bleeding edge and then some. It doesn't surprise me in the slightest that the chipset/socket/pinout needs to be changed.
Who's going to switch to AMD and lose what, 25% performance? More? Over this? Not me. Probably not you, either.