Just like I play several PowerPC only games that have no Intel version and never will and they don't play well, if at all, in Parallels. My sister still plays the original Star Craft which is PowerPC only. Apple really should make Rosetta for Lion. This is the first time ever that I didn't upgrade to the latest Mac OS X. My other issue is that I prefer to have an install disc rather than a DMG image. I don't like the idea of a recovery partition when I have little hard drive space left.
I am surprised that Appl ditched Rosetta so quickly when they kept Classic mode for many years up til 10.5 or 10.4 for Intel. At least there is an excellent solution for Classic since it is not very intesive.
I can never buy a new Mac since they can no longer run Snow Leopard. Maybe by some miracle some other company will make something similar that works just as well. My only complaint with Rosetta is that it doesn't run Office 2004 well so I was forced to upgrade to 2008 which I don't like. I prefer the Office 2004 interface better.