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Well.. last time I bought a commodore I got the full schematic of the computer in the box. And the user manual taught me programming.
I didn't know how to operate it when I bought it, but I learned fast.
Curious as to what Commodore that was. For the C64, a full schematic came with the Programmer's Reference Guide (PRG) which was a separate publication to the User Manual that shipped with the computer. There were bits and pieces about the internals in the manual, a lot of similar sections and tables, and perhaps a simplified diagram of how things were arranged logically, but not the full fold-out schematic.
That said, maybe I got a pared-down budget manual along with my C64C in the early '90s. When I found a pristine PRG in a bookshop, it was much expanded and had that schematic... which I learned didn't quite match the C64C once I'd plucked up the courage to open the case.
I doubt anything this new Commodore are planning to release will come with anything quite so detailed, and even if they did, the new C64 seems to be an FPGA (computer on a chip) housed in a keyboard that looks like the original. The diagram wouldn't be much more than a single box with a lot of wires coming out of it to the various ports.