WinUAE is, AF specific bits written by Cloanto are not.
(if you own even a yellowed dead A500 you can legally download KS 1.3/2.04 and use the FREE WinUAE emulator they are charging you for)
The bit written by Cloanto make WinUAE usable for most people.
The Retro Player is a great utility for automatically setting up the playing Classic Amiga games. I've also used it for running most of my classic Amiga productivity software (and I use Amiga Explorer to connect the PC to my Amiga and drag across the ADF file without messing with shell command - very simple. The RP9 wrapper makes it easy to create your own self contained executable files.
Of course if you have every single Amiga model and understand the intricacies of various Chipset, Ram, video modes and CPU settings,etc etc thensetting then perhaps AF is not for you.
But everyone to their own.
TrevorD