I had an ST very briefly. It was reliable - but when I found out that thr Amiga was the real successor to my beloved Atari 800 - I put my ST up for sale and ordered the Amiga.

I don’t understand about windows. Windows 3 was still 3 years away in 1988 And the first decent windows. Win 3.1 was 7 years away.

I think Mcirosoft was still hoping Macintosh was going to be everywhere in 1985 when st and Amiga came out.