If what you're talking about (obfuscated int) is due to c being a victim of its own success, hardware manufacturers implementing C's that elided the meanings of

If what you're talking about (obfuscated int) is due to c being a victim of its own success, hardware manufacturers implementing C's that elided the meanings of these types to match their own architecture, against the long term best interests of C, to "make porting code easier" in the short term?