> make the Amiga the intellectual and technical heir to the Apple II
The hallmark of the Apple II was its simplicity. A person could understand all of it, from the hardware up, quite easily.
The Amiga, OTOH, is a very complicated machine. There is no denying it was an incredibly capable machine back then, but, ultimately, its complexity became an issue when VGA and PCM sound became a thing on PCs and the ISA bus made it trivial to add new capabilities to a PC while Commodore had to push out a new computer (or, at least, a new chipset) for the same capabilities.
The hallmark of the Apple II was its simplicity. A person could understand all of it, from the hardware up, quite easily.
The Amiga, OTOH, is a very complicated machine. There is no denying it was an incredibly capable machine back then, but, ultimately, its complexity became an issue when VGA and PCM sound became a thing on PCs and the ISA bus made it trivial to add new capabilities to a PC while Commodore had to push out a new computer (or, at least, a new chipset) for the same capabilities.