It's not about what you or me or Trixie think - that's completely irrelevant. Trixies statement to which I replied was (he thinks) "OS4 never competed with..." - and that's simply not true.
Of course all of that is ancient history (but not actually20 years, maybe you should fact check your claims occasionally). But claiming there never was an attempt to create a usable/useful desktop OS, is just rewriting history. It's yet another version of "Timberwolf works fine here".