A dev team that was actually clean and didn't pirate a single thing would have done much better.
Notice how the other emulator, Ryujinx, isn't being targeted. There is no talk of a dev "stash" on its discord server.
The marketing people inside Nintendo must have been completely furious to have their supremely controlled media cycle completely sidetracked by them. They clearly sicked the legal department on them after that.
Any time an emulator developer, or a fan game artist gets a cease and desist from Nintendo, it's always because marketing gets wind of their existence.
Citation please? Yuzu couldn't start the game at all without a patch, which I don't believe was being promoted by the Yuzu team.
Of course the patch + game + yuzu got bundled together and offered as a download on many websites, perhaps this is what you're thinking of.
Ultimately, Ryujinx's emphasis on accuracy makes it the better Switch emulator for actual preservation anyways, and I imagine that project is seeing a lot more support now that Yuzu is dead.