Hello Wandersleben,

My first emulations of Sargon 2.5 and CC7 date back to 1990, and were in Turbo C under MS-DOS, with a simple ASCII interface: so I'm not very attached to the physical aspect of emulation, even though it's much more pleasant to use: so I understand your point of view.
Furthermore, you could argue that the leds are arranged on the opposite side to the human player, which is more logical (we don't generally look at the leds to play our moves).
But for some of us who frequently use several different games, standardizing the position of the leds is easier and more pleasant, even if the physical appearance of the chess computer is no longer 100% (like its third dimension, by the way ;-) .

Cordially.