Why would the 8086 encoding be inspired from the 8080 when these two are generally not meant to be compatible in terms of their encoding? There is no gain from

Why would the 8086 encoding be inspired from the 8080 when these two are generally not meant to be compatible in terms of their encoding? There is no gain from any of that. This is like a urban legend that i have never found the source for. I stopped believing it after learning that the 8080 encoding order is BCDEHLMA, with the accumulator being last at position 7.