Rethinking Open Source: The Challenges Behind Establishing a Modern Emulator

In general this is an insightful article (once you apply the Wadsworth constant), but I am bothered by the sentiment of section on Citra and 3rd party builds. The narrative seems to be that "good guy developers who care deeply about you" are telling you not to use builds that solve your problems and do what you want, and instead you should just suck it up and wait until they get around to fixing it properly, presumably with love instead of hacks. That's just a silly thing to expect.

I find it much more satisfying to emulate the very lowest levels of hardware/software.

Then the fact that very complex software, such as an unaltered app, runs as it was intended to, on top of your emulator is verification that your emulation is indeed correct.

Emulating an app is trivial compared with emulating the underlying structures. Actually, emulating an app is just doing a 'clean-room' rewrite.