I have no desire to mod my SNES Classic because to me part of the appeal is the item itself as a collectable. So I would want it to remain as it was upon release. For me the other reasons for owning it were to get a proper Star Fox 2 release and the convenience of being able to play most of the top SNES games on an HDTV.
I have a good SNES collection so having access to most of the big games isn't an issue. There are a handful of expensive titles that I really want and have no realistic way to get in an affordable manner but if I really wanted to resort to piracy to play them I'd rather use something like an Everdrive to play them on a proper SNES. I'm not typically into emulation in the first place over using authentic hardware. There's just something about the SNES Classic being an official Nintendo product, and the high quality that come with that, that makes this an exception. But once I start dumping ROMs on it why aren't I just running them on my laptop or getting a Raspberry Pi? There's something about this and the NES Classic that's more than just running ROMs of old games.
If your view is that you want to keep your SNES classic as a pristine, untouched product, I can see why you'd be weary of tinkering with it.
That said, as someone who has a raspberry Pi and has gone through the process of setting it up, there are a bunch of reasons why the SNES classic has advantages over that.
- After initial set-up, using hackchi is literally plug into PC, change games/settings, save. Even initial set-up was 15 mins at most, given how good the instructions are for it, whereas the retro-pie set up took a good couple of hours over a few nights for me.
- The menu & navigation for SNES classic is great IMO, and while the retropie menu is good for what it is, the presentation leaves something to be desired.
- A lot of the controller options I found for the retropie didn't feel great (even 8bitdo). These controllers feel really close to the originals.
- The emulation on the SNES classic IMO appears much better. Encountered lots of problems with sounds fading in/out on my retropie, and couldn't find a solution in the settings.
So for someone who is using it more utilitarian as a way to share some of my gaming childhood with my wife & kids, a nifty Nintendo package that plugs into HD tvs that I can add a feature (soft reset via controller input), amend the library by a few games to make it closer to content complete for me (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: Turtles in Time is NEVER being released), and even have the option to get custom backgrounds installed, if I want to go through the trouble.