The gaming industry doesn't exist just to serve your tastes and your tastes alone. Less accessibility is always bad. There are only a finite number of physical copies of any game, not all physical copies are in great condition, and the number of physical copies that are viable for playing is only going to decrease as games break down all on their own or in fires, floods, etc. But the biggest problem is that, even if you can find a physical copy for sale for easily enough, many retro games are prohibitively expensive, and I don't want legal retro gaming to be the realm solely of the rich (or those who are old enough to have acquired this stuff cheaply 20+ years ago). Would I prefer to have a SNES cart of Earthbound? Of course. Am I about to pay the current going rate? Hell no. Hence why I picked up the Virtual Console release on 3DS. You can claim things will go back to as they were when we first started collecting, but those days are never coming back when countless games that could be had for less than $20, even less than $5, now cost hundreds of dollars, and finding anything good at a decent price in the wild is a lucky find, let alone scoring something for way less than the market rate.

Yes, emulation exists and has existed for a long time, but it's myopic to think there are no people who prefer to acquire digital retro games in a legal capacity.