> RetroArch is an absolute piece of shit, and there are so many other reasons to not be > using it.
Indeed.
> If it's growing in popularity it's only because people are stupid / lazy /
No because they very legitimately want features like CRT shaders they actualy understand how to control, and very legitimately don't want to play with unwanted additional frames of delay.
> Unfortunately competing with that lack of morals is tricky.
No you just have to acknowledge people aren't stupid and that it's very moral to want to experience the games closer to what they remember, how they looked and felt, it's only natural, and that's a desire for preservation too. You also have to aknowledge that they weren't fed with coding, editing, hardware and programming knowledge all their lives like you, MAME's only been growing in complexity for users and the more it does the more users it loses. Get such features in MAME, make it more users friendly - you'd do that infinitely better than RetroArch no doubt about it - and you'll obsolete RA and win back the love.
> Single worst thing to happen in the 20 years I've been involved in emulation.
Yes, that, and MAME's tunnel vision, refusal to see reality is a close second.