I think the poor chap is being misunderstood a lot. First off: He hasn`t created that list, Retrogamer has. He is only posting the few lists that have been in the Retrogamer magazine.
Also, I think a list of favourites wouldn`t ba a bad idea. Ofcourse, you would need to choose them yourself in the emulator options. Yes, everybody has his own favourites but that`s what the guy meant anyway, everybody could choose his own so they wouldn`t have to browse through 60+ roms before getting to the ones mostly played.
I can see though, that developers should have other priorities and rather work on speed optimizations and compability.