Reports were that Energize customers were relieved when Lucid folded, because they would then not get a whole new set of compiler bugs to discover every quarter. They had, instead, the bugs they already knew about and had learned to work around.

Lisp Machines anyway raised the standard of quality in CRT monitors. Manufacturing their own monitors has to have contributed substantially to their downfall, but we all benefited in the end. Well, all but them.