Well, I'm a user, not a developer, so compiling the source is no option for me (and certainly many others, too).
Nonsense. A significant number of users have learned to compile MAME and MESS just fine - it's arguably easier now than actually using the emulator ;-)
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(I know a few persons which still do not want to use MESS because they think everything is as broken as c64 was in 2001...)
That and if you do convince someone like that to try MESS again they consider their prejudices confirmed at the first sign of any glitch or incompatibility.