I agree.
I don't know that Wyndham will ever achieve the instant name recognition that they had originally built up, and sold out to the 3 headed dog.
At one time, there were only a handful of companies who were selling AR's, especially during the ban years. There was Colt, who was mainly interested in gov't contracts and was a lot like H&K (whereas you suck and they hate you), Olympic Arms/SGW, Bushmaster, Rock River, Defense Procurement who later became known as DPMS and a smaller company in Louisiana (Essential Arms I think), and a guy in florida that was selling a lower with the navy seals trident on the side of it. I think they were selling as gunsmoke. JP Enterprise (John Paul) was selling very high end competition guns and parts.
Oh, there was PAWS in Oregon too, but they catered more to LEO than civy sales. They made a lot of the transferable M16s from SGW and Olympic Arms cast receivers too pre '86.
But yeah, I've been around AR's for a very long time.
Seems like I come across a new manufacturer name about once a month I had never heard of and can't keep track of most of them these days.