True, but those examples you cited are the minority.

Some software engineer working with drivers are distant from the hardware developers (especially in Linux) and even inside corporations there's a wall somewhere.

And of course, sometimes there's an abstraction between hardware and driver (usually through a firmware). Commonly relating to a standard, like USB storage, ATAPI, etc

" You can't make a piece of hardware without thinking about how the driver will work."

Unfortunately I've had to work with some devices that had very hard requirements on the software (basically, response time) (or you would add extra hardware to deal with it). In the second revision this problem was "fixed" by increasing a certain buffer size.

So yeah, sometimes hardware engineers don't think about that comprehensively enough.