@datarama @david_chisnall my perception is that around the turn of the century we got usable Linux and Windows XP and macOS X. And then "workstation-class" computers became available to all.

The Amiga was quite close to that and that's why I loved our Amiga, but it was always doomed.

Slightly unrelated, but I love to link:

https://www.winestockwebdesign.com/Essays/Eternal_Mainframe.html

Which said in 2013 (not 2003) that microcomputers are doomed too :(