Dominus wrote:

it's not like you don't have to restart Dosbox anyway if you use the frontends and want to play another game...

That's the point. With the frontends it is no big deal to start a new DOSBox for each game. When you exit DOSBox, the frontend will still be running with its list of games. There is nothing that a DOS menu system can do that cannot be done better by DBGL or D.O.G., except possibly nostalgia.

Of course you are right, that these frontends can do more. Basically I was pointing out that

in fact it has the distinct disadvantage of not allowing custom DOSBox configuration for each game.

is just not true.