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.
Your right. The 256 colour CD32 AGA version of Wing Commander should have been the standard Amiga version in 1992 (already 2 years behind the PC) and the chunky screenmode enabled Amiga A1200/4000 released in Christmas 1992 it time for Doom in 1993/94.