Although I agree with you for the most part, as far as I understand it, there seems to be different layers to this.

Emulators are legal if they’re built from ground up, but if they use any code from the actual system, it’s illegal. For example, I think Dolphin tried to get on Steam, but they were disallowed because they used a “leaked copy of the Wii Common Code”.

Feel free to correct me if I’m wrong. The piracy talk recently have been kind of interesting, because a couple of the emulator communities I’m involved in require proof of dump for any help such as Yuzu’s Discord.

On average, it’s definitely more expensive, but if you’re not going for the best of the best, then you can build a strong PC at a reasonable price.

A lot of SFF cases (<20L) are enthusiast, boutique cases like the FormD T1, but there have been more mainstream cases like the Cooler Master NR200, Fractal Design Terra, Fractal Design Ridge, and more.

Mobo options are limited compared to your usual ATX optional so if you want a specific one with a lot of features, you’ll have to pay up.

Then, SFX PSUs have their own SFF tax for being small. Depending on the size of your case, you’ll want custom PSU cables that are shorter than the stock cables.

Everything else is about the same, except you have more limited choices to buy from.

Because the dev now works at Google, he had to remove the root hiding functions called SU Hide. You can bring it back with various modules, but I was lazy and wanted a install one, do all solution.

Magisk Delta is a fork that brings back SU Hide, and I haven’t needed to install an extra app to fix any apps it couldn’t hide root from.

I use Magisk Delta (a fork of Magisk) on an otherwise stock Pixel 7 Pro. Everything works including banking apps and Google Pay.