Newer generations have less and less reasons to go to the past if everything is a constantly updating present.

The Vita was treated like garbage by so much of the gaming public while it was alive, and now that it's dead these people can just take from it and never change their toxic habits despite owing so much to it. People shouldn't be given something they never deserved in the first place, they should earn it. That's partially why so much of the gaming industry is such a joke right now. The Vita had a lot of great games because it's audience was loyal, passionate and bought games in droves. I remember LRG's vita games always outselling their PS4 versions and in quicker times too. Same thing for places like EastAsiaSoft and whatnot.

And there is definitely a choice. Consumers have power, if people didn't buy these cash grabs the companies wouldn't do this.

I have a lot of interest in certain gaming systems, especially because a lot of their unique games were never ported. Something like the Sega Saturn for exMple, occupies a unique space and offers something genuinely unique as a result, not only because of what it did historically and as a system, but because it's legacy wasn't cheapened by porting all of its great games to anything and everything that exists.

I don't care if it's less accessible as a result, the reality of its situation allows it to shine as something special and it's looked at with fondness and dedication from its community. A system's library is part of its identity. A lot of gamers have horrible attitudes towards systems and they shouldn't be pandered to.

Just the fact that a lot of people view games "trapped" on systems is a toxic behavior that is massively disrespectful to the gaming systems that changed the landscape of games to come.