I think you make fair points. Of course, copyright law isn't perfect and has many issues of its own. While I think it doesn't make much sense for companies to be suing people over pirating games that were released decades ago, perhaps the final decision should lie with them since they were the ones who put it out. Either way, in the current situation these companies tend to look out for the distributors rather than the players. Not very hopeful that copyright law will change in favor of the common man since the big corps have way more say in this...

I share your viewpoint in hopefully having a more accessible and attainable solution to play older games, it's something that I hope will happen in the future too. Sadly, I think remakes/remasters are able to milk whatever old IPs they have for much more than if they just bundled all the old games together.