I feel just the opposite. I have a pile of the most powerful general-purpose commodity hardware ever built, and it's a damning indictment of the industry that it can no longer run software that used to work fine on tiny machines.
On the contrary, I think it's an indictment of the industry that we still put effort in hardware into running ancient software and continue to burden the most widespread architecture in the world with 1970s nonsense when virtualization is the obvious solution.
Plenty of people want to run games for the 6502 architecture on their PCs, yet Intel would be out of their mind if they added a 6502 to the die. Why do we not treat the Intel 8086 the same way?
For example, AFAIK there's still no emulator that can correctly run the 8088 mph demo.
(There's also the fact that the 8088 MPH demo is not a particularly compelling use case, even if the hardware were present.)