I think it was more important back when physical copies were more or less the norm. With digital taking over, even on consoles, it becomes somewhat easier to adapt and enable backwards compatible gaming on newer platforms. The Xbox One has quite a few games from the 360 library that function really well as digital offerings. I think, if given the choice, I'd rather have developers making games BC digitally than make endless remakes and re-masters as we've seen in the 8th gen. This would enable them to focus on more interesting fare.
I think my answer to the OPs question would be "no" though, it's not all that important today. It's still a shame that Nintendo has made such poor use of their immense catalogue of games as online offerings though. I'm still hoping they'll change their mind on this instead of selling retro hardware for a higher premium and with only a fraction of the games available.
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