I sure hope you haven’t bought anything on virtual console, or subscribed to Nintendo’s online service with all those NES, Genesis, SNES, and N64 games then, or bought Mario 3D All Stars, or any number of other commercial emulation projects…
Maybe I’m an outlier in that I don’t sell my old games and consoles, but emulation is a matter of convenience or a better experience for me. Yes, I have hundreds of old games on dozens of systems taking up space in my house. Yes I have a CRT and original hardware to play them on. No, I don’t want to always sit down in my office where those things are to play Mario 3. I’ve got a Switch and online subscription or my Steam Deck, and there’s no moral ambiguity about me playing a 30+ year old game my family first bought in the 80s, and I still physically own, and then bought again digitally probably another half dozen times, on a Steam Deck. And there’s no problem with me playing something I bought like TotK on Yuzu if I wanted to, though I’ve put 100 hours in on my launch day Switch because I want the glitch free experience.
All that old hardware is going to die eventually and emulation is the only way to preserve the old software. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with that, even if people are using it to pirate. Some people drive cars drunk, that doesn’t mean the majority of car drivers are doing so.