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The price was the main issue with the Lisa it was stupidly expensive.
My family ended up opting for cheaper and more compatible computers like a Commodore 64 and Atari 800XL, both of which were purchased before my birth. Later we picked up a HeadStart Explorer XT-clone with an 8088 and a Tandy 1000 RL/HD IBM-clone with an 8086. I have a hard time remembering all my old computers completely, but I ended up with a room full of hand-me-downs. The gem of which for a long time was a later 386. Still the Tandy 1000 I remember as a monster when we originally got it.
My family ended up opting for cheaper and more compatible computers like a Commodore 64 and Atari 800XL, both of which were purchased before my birth. Later we picked up a HeadStart Explorer XT-clone with an 8088 and a Tandy 1000 RL/HD IBM-clone with an 8086. I have a hard time remembering all my old computers completely, but I ended up with a room full of hand-me-downs. The gem of which for a long time was a later 386. Still the Tandy 1000 I remember as a monster when we originally got it.
I don't think the Apple new what its was doing with the Lisa. If you look what Atari and Commodore did with a gui and the 6800 chip at a much lower price point just 2 years later. I went from an 8 bit BBC B to the 16 bit gui of Atari ST and it was a revelation and seeing they were roughly the same price.
My family was a PC family. I have no idea what you would call my Dad's earliest computers he exposed me to, they've long since been recycled before I was of an age to even think about asking what they were specifically.