That is a very weird interpretation of what happened. Acorn had horrible software, the hardware did not evolve as fast as x86 and after a few years hype it was

That is a very weird interpretation of what happened. Acorn had horrible software, the hardware did not evolve as fast as x86 and after a few years hype it was pretty much dead. What eventually saved it was basically an accident: due to lack of manpower the design was extremely simple, which turned out to translate to power efficiency. Edit: the original designer put a very positive spin on things by saying that leadership gave them two things they needed to succeed: no money and no people.