Just a thought:
Nowadays the demo-scene is all about design, rather than pushing the hardware to the extreme. The reason for this being that the graphic cards has become so good that its not difficult to make good-looking effect anylonger. The coders simply are getting lazy. This may be a good thing, cause instead of pushing the coders to do better work it pushes the manufacturers to make better and faster hardware instead.
Back in the old-days such hardware didnt exist. Therefore the coders instead dug into the code and tweaked it to the max to show those heavy duty effects. Just think of it, the 2004 silkcut demo is using the same hardware that existed back in 1993! Just awesome!!!
Conclusion? Well, instead of pushing commodore/escom/amiga inc for better hardware, the users has opted for staying with their existing hardware. They simply made the best out of what they had, instead of demanding something better. And since Amiga basically died because of the lack of development of new hardware, the fall of this great system can be blaimed on the users. Right?
Just a thought
