Internally though there was a big fight between supporters of the Mac and the ][. Apple didn't think the ][ would be as long-lived as it would turn out be so they rushed the flawed /// to market, and then there was the Lisa and then the Mac. Jobs thought the ][ would be dead 6 months after the /// came out but there was this time from 1979 to 1985 or so that 8-bit computers just hung in the air and there wasn't real progress from one year to the next because the close coupling between the video system and the system bus meant you couldn't just come out with a machine that was 50% faster each year -- people weren't going to trade up to a better machine if that meant breaking all your software.
Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs both left the company because of this conflict but you can imagine a different world where Apple did not invest in the Mac but instead bet it all on the Apple ][, where the //gs came out a few years before it did and took the place of the Mac and then they followed a different trajectory to end up where they are now.
Some people who where they might look at it with nostalgia, people who weren't there might appreciate the sense of industrial design that was front and center with the ][.