Tubby failure on a D normally results in lots of black smoke, but it depends how smart the engine management is, in this case I would expect black smoke. Tubby failing shouldn't happen intermittently – it's either dead or it's not. If the shaft has snapped you'll get no boost any of the time and probably ditch lots of oil thorough it, and possibly hear lots of unpleasand screeches from it. If the bearing has just failed and removed lots of the turbine blades you might be looking at a silent no-boost situation but its rare for the blades to get shed without such bad bearing failure that it contacts the housing.
My guess is that if its elec-controlled boost it's simply a failure of the valve that regulates the pressure to the actuator. It could simply be that your wastegate has stuck open, massively bypassing the turbo.
What is the engine warning light code (have you had it read?). Dont just jump down the new turbo route without good cause. Where is the turbo on those, is it visible in the engine bay or is it buried down the back?
Even a VNT turbo would produce SOME boost if its mechanisms had failed, but it may cause fluctuation in power.