ME.Outside of how horrible this has turned out, I still love the idea of a new system for all of the reasons you listed, and one of my friends was equally on board as well.
Having a console that also serves as a rally point for all of the smaller developers out there is an extremely romantic idea to me. Yacht Club, NG Dev, Piko, Collectorvision, Wayforward, Neobitz, Watermellon, and many others on the same system, for all of the reasons listed above? Yes please. But.......
It all only exsists in Retroland:(