I think the people who write the various DOSBox forks and patches sometimes forget that, to many less tech-savy people, it is usually the case that you should always use the latest or most well equipped version of a program. They're taught this by Windows updates, programs such as virus killers that inform you every few days when it updates itself, in the answers to technical problems in PC magazines or Windows/PC based help websites, and so on. So it's natural that there must be lots of people who don't have too much experience of PCs, and so who might well never have found that a newer or upgraded version of a trusted program is somehow inferior to the older, long used version that they've replaced with the new version. And when such people see that there are different versions of DOSBox, then it's easy for them to assume that the newer versions, or the versions with added features, should be used instead of older versions.
More experienced people know that this isn't always the case, usually from painful experience, but it's not at all obvious, especially to someone who only tends to use official software, where mostly any potentially significant bugs and faults are found and eliminated before release.