If you already have a nice playing one then keep it. Otherwise it's repro all the way. MMr was a little shaky start but AFMr was a raging success that can't be denied.

TOM, LW3, and WOZ are easily the three worst games I have ever owned.
MB is light years ahead of them.

As I was reading this post, right about here I pictured Liam Neeson saying "good luck". At best they will fix some bugs and enhance the DMD and sound quality. Actual code updates would be for games that need it like TOM and especially CC. MBr doesn't need a huge software update to sell and selling is all that counts.

You show a picture of an MPU board? I could easily show a picture of a WPC95 CPU and ask what you do when you get one that the batteries have leaked on? You replace it or pay someone a bunch of money and maybe it gets fixed and maybe it doesn't.

There has been surface mount technology in main stream pins for a long time including the SAM system CPU. Those CPUs will be around for years and so will replacements. Think anyone has ever repaired the MPU in a JJP machine themselves? Besides, at this point there are already plenty of CGC games out there to ensure they will be repairable and/or spares for many decades from the usual sources. The fact that they use standard interfaces will make them easy to emulate in the future as well for aftermarket support.

This whole "new technology is bad", the sky is falling strawman is lame at best. You don't like the remakes. We get it.