Because alternatives have some requirements that may not suite some people.
1. VMs have relatively big resources overhead and this approach requires you to download some Android image first.
Of course you'd want some clean distribution and there simply aren't many such ones (that I know of) that are easily available. The ones I tried - were a 2-in-1 shitshow+slideshow for me. Maybe it's because I used ISO (for QEMU/KVM), as I didn't want to run proprietary crapware (VirtualBox/VMWare).
2. Going with Anbox requires having crapware snapd and their Android image is quite old (Android 7.1.1).
3. Going with Waydroid requires having Wayland, which if you don't use it - is an overkill to install just to have Android on your PC.
4. Going with Android from AndroidSDK - is probably an even harder way to get access to some Android on your PC (I don't really know, I haven't investigated that option).
1. VMs have relatively big resources overhead and this approach requires you to download some Android image first.
Of course you'd want some clean distribution and there simply aren't many such ones (that I know of) that are easily available. The ones I tried - were a 2-in-1 shitshow+slideshow for me. Maybe it's because I used ISO (for QEMU/KVM), as I didn't want to run proprietary crapware (VirtualBox/VMWare).
2. Going with Anbox requires having crapware snapd and their Android image is quite old (Android 7.1.1).
3. Going with Waydroid requires having Wayland, which if you don't use it - is an overkill to install just to have Android on your PC.
4. Going with Android from AndroidSDK - is probably an even harder way to get access to some Android on your PC (I don't really know, I haven't investigated that option).