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Theoretically, but practically a lot of late 90s (and early 00s) games don’t run on modern windows.

they probably run well in wine though

This seems like the most difficult era as far as emulation of PC games goes. There was a ton of change and different 3D accelerators during this time and hardware advanced away from things like 16-bit color and dropped support. And it is old news, look up "thief crappy colors" so see all the work that had to be done to get Thief: The Dark Project (and games using the same engine) to look normal on modern hardware. And that was 10-15 years ago. And many games didn't have the fan base to update game like Thief did.

Why does there have to be a point?

applications yes, but operating systems less so.

i am a fan of NeXTstep. i can see myself wanting to run that on an original machine because all alternatives would not provide the same experience.

next time i visit my mother i have to try and check if the NeXTstation stored there still boots up.

Because people enjoy using them