Regarding Shader cache

[AnyOldName3]

Master-branch Dolphin is an accuracy-focused emulator above all else, and if some devs had their way, everything would be done with interpreters and software renderers to ensure perfect accuracy in every respect except speed. There are definitely settings in Dolphin that make things faster or prettier at the risk of breaking other things, but there aren't a huge number of them - it's a nuisance to have to look after two code paths for everything, as it potentially means that every change has to be made twice in two different places in two different ways. This slows down development.