IIRC, those stripped LC2s were primarily sold as "cheap crack" for schools with large Apple II investments, as the ones I encountered were usually fitted with A2 emulation boards and booted up directly into the emulator (presumably on a boot floppy). This saved the cost of a hard disk and they could run their old software.

I imagine most of those stripper LC2s were eventually upgraded to 3s or Q605s at some point.