The emulator sucks on all platforms, not just mac. I suspect that at google, most android app development happens on real hardware and the emulator there to tick a box.

I spent about five minutes with it before concluding that productivity was going to require some real hardware. The emulator really only gets fired up when reproducing bugs on old os versions.

The emulator project is probably under-resourced and as such they don't care about minor usability issues with known workarounds. I'm not seeing this as being some kind of jihad against mac users.