When they standardized what the Pico8's specs would be, I thought it was too underpowered for a whole slew of ideas, but since then I've been consistently proven wrong. Really impressive.
That is the funny thing about providing people with a lot of limitations for a longer time. What they get out of the 80s home computers well after the 80s was considered impossible by even the makers of those systems. People will find ways if they can shoot at the same (virtual) hardware for a long time.