More divided?
The Vampire enables a large chunk of users to have similar hardware configs, as compared to the past, when you had to look high and low to get a 060 accelerator. Want a graphics card? Need to fork out alot of cash etc.
Now its all contained in small board, at a relativly pleasant price. The people purchasing them are relativly active, many that hasnt really touched their Classic machines for decades.
The A1200 I got has collected dust for ...15 years in the basement. Now its installed in my homeoffice, alongside the newly purchased A600.
I like to think the Vampire has revived a section of the Amiga population that was completely dormant. How you manage to view that as a negative is beyond me.
I see the point of the extra instruction set posing a challenge, but at the moment the only advantage we have is good performance running old classic programs. There are very few Vampire spesific programs.