Because every ceo and upper management needed the highest salary possible complete with golden parachutes as they left the company.
Insane that they had a 256 Color C=64 in the works by 1991 and didn't even release that.
256 colors should have been standard by the time the A500/2000 came out at the earliest and by the release of the CDTV / A3000 the very latest. ESC should have had 256 colors out of 4096 / 32000, 262000 or 24 bit palette.
Instead... they waited until...1992... forget about C2P.
