I don't think you give the Amiga in particular enough credit. It wasn't really sold as a workstation, in particular the 500. It was sold for gaming and home use

I don't think you give the Amiga in particular enough credit. It wasn't really sold as a workstation, in particular the 500. It was sold for gaming and home use and was way better at that than anything else of the day. Including Mac and PC. At least in the Netherlands they were wildly popular among home users and not oddball at all. I bought one even though I had a PC because it was so much better for games. It also had a pre-emptive multitasking OS in ROM which other platforms got only many years later. Like the Mac I'm the early 2000s.