The Alto version never took off, exactly because there were no "wasted" instructions for the purpose of vendor lock in or irreplicable platform insurance. Once you add some layers of instructions, frameworks, toolkits and outright cruft (notably DRM) it sells like hotcakes, only because of Market dynamics (which have very little to do with the product itself).

It is in no vendor's genuine interest to let people know how a computer truly works: just to indoctrinate on partial, select areas.