You see, I would need to explain the technical reasons behind the use of different emulators to someone who doesn't know or care. Where is it? Oh, that's in a different MAME. Next, he wants to play Asteroids, but it is not in the list. So, I show my system to a friend who is non technical, and he wants to play Joust. For example, I use lr-mame2003 for most games, but vector games I use AdvanceMAME., and NeoGeo I use FBA.
Most of us who use ARCADE do so because multiple versions of MAME and FBA befuddles users who don't know or care about the difference.