A500 potential

[TjLaZer]

People fail to realize that back in 1985-1987 the Amiga's GUI was very impressive compared to the competition!  MS-DOS?  Macintosh Finder 5.x?  Atari TOS 1.0?  Hah 4 color Workbenches were the bomb!    

Also it was a speed issue, having more colors bogged down the system and they had to keep the lowly 512k A1000/500 users in mind too.  A default had to be established and the 4 color WB was it.

[TjLaZer]

Everyone thinks VGA and Commodore's lack of R&D Killed the Amiga, I don't think that is the case!  Marketing was the problem, Commodore's Amiga was the underdog in the industry, even in it's hayday.  It simply never caught up and when VGA came out things did not get better.