Just ran across this and have been stuck thinking about how this would have affected the development of gaming, PDAs, laptops, and cell phones. If there was ever any doubt, I think we can now rest assured that this is an inferior timeline after having learned about the WorkBoy.
In your proposed alternate timeline this would have made perfect sense: https://twitter.com/lizardbill/status/831937286891794437?t=hAwpxBgoEx31_j028KuY0w&s=19