For one it was a “cathedral”, not a “bazaar” in the sense that it had more or less the same hardware on all models.

The hardware was nicely balanced: small enough that you could learn it all, yet complex enough to keep tweaking and pushing its limits for a long time.

It also had a long life, so you could get really good at it. People were using their 500s from the 80s well into the 90es.

Contrast with his to PCs where there was a plethora of different hardware components for CPU models, graphics and sound - a “bazaar”.

At the early stages the standardised Amiga was just much easier for the devs.

Later the PCs became so powerful that the energy moved there anyway - but I still remember the shock of the terribly messy instruction set on the PCs after switching from the nice and clean 68k.

For me personally that was when I stopped. It was simply not joyful to work with.