User interfaces
Let's turn this around for a moment. You tell me what the software engineers
were working on. Of that "dozen or two" people, how many were devoted to what
tasks?
From my perspective, from reading AmigaMail, the DevCon notes, and absoluting
refusing to subscribe to the drivel on BIX, and from watching the Mac and
Windows markets closely, I could not see the rhyme and reason in the OS
software that CBM was developing.