[rasz]

Forgot to add the biggest problem was lack of universal DOS graphic API. Vesa came out with VBE/AF way too late https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VESA_BIOS_Extensions#VBE/accel...

Things might of looked different with VBE/AF fully defined in early 1992 and subsequent graphic products all providing at least partial support (8/16bit panning and sprites would be enough).

Instead everything was too late. Even VESA LFB never truly got implemented on ISA cards (afaik only ATI Mach64 and maybe experimental support in ET4000?), and only started working on VBE and PCI.