You can also use any controller you want with emulation. You can even replicate a crt filter or even get a real crt and emulate onto that to replicate the good ol days. I’d say a crt helps more than original hardware. Even with original hardware, pixels are too sharp and clean on modern screens. Old games benefited from smoothing and blurring the lines, which helped create a more realistic image.

More than that, it does all sorts of things that also had to be worked around.

Don’t get addicted to 60? That’s the standard. We’ve moved on to “don’t get addicted to 144” because that is both easily achievable with moderately affordable hardware and widely supported now.