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>>6244215 >>6244238
It's more complicated than that. The original team finished a new chipset (Ranger) and left. That chipset was awesome and much ahead of everything else. But it never saw the light of day, because commodore management discarded it because "Too expensive", as if economics of scale weren't a thing or being first to market had no value.
They also, again, discarded another ahead of everything else chipset, near ready, and literally forbid the engineers, which wanted to work on it and finish it, from doing so. Same excuses, too expensive. AGA was done in a hurry instead.
Even so, AGA was still awesome when it released in 1992, and they could have followed up with something awesome, but guess what happened? Management got involved again.
David Pleasance's book "Amiga: The insider story" covers the corrupt/incompetent management in much more detail if you're curious about it.
Amiga used to be an independent company, but it ran out of money and got bought by Commodore. It would be a much different world today if this never happened, and some investor lent them money instead.