I think what made the Amiga the Amiga, was the combination of
the OS and the then great hardware.
Correct, Amiga was indeed great hardware, could have been even better hardware if C= management didn't screw everything up. Had the tech been available, IIRC, the entire chipset would have been on a single chip. Tech wasn't, and they had to do multiple chips to take the load off the 7MHz 68000 to make the machine as fast as possible with the capabilities they wanted.
Fast forward 20+ years and we have cheap hardware that can do what is needed for any desktop OS that hasn't been M$'d to death. Even better, each couple of years and we get another major jump in tech after the big boys spend billions of dollars of R&D plus T&E.
Old motto comes to mind when talking about hardware, "Work smarter, not harder."
Dammy