This whole topic begs the question; did software piracy have any affect on the premature death of the Amiga, or would all of the ineptness of CBM still happened just the same way it did, and nothing would be different?

I sort of think that nothing would have been different, except that instead of 10,000+ software games, demos and other programs found in these attempts to take advantage of the Amiga legacy, would now have 15,000+ games, demos and other programs, as we would have had less developers leaving the Amiga as quickly as they did, and more content would have been produced for just a little bit longer.