Oh jeez, did some brief research and that is awful. The person in charge of Retroarch seems to be a greedy asshole, doesn't properly credit other people's code, and there's direct IRC-logged evidence of abusive behavior towards emulator devs. Yikes. No wonder there are competing projects.

Time for me to never touch it again. I hear LaunchBox is a fine alternative but on my Switch I might just grab ARM builds of individual emulators; it would save time over the whole RA interface anyways.