There are a great many more drives than that that will read subcode, Squall-Leonhart - and you're ignoring the fact that this only affects copy protected games, which ePSXe will not read directly - you have to record the subcode separately to play the protected CD. With pSX, OTOH, if you have a drive that reads subcode successfully, you don't have to mess about recording a subcode track, and then setting the plugin to use it every time you want to play a protected game, you just stick the CD in and play.
On top of that, with the availability of cheap hard drive space today, almost everyone rips their games to images for convenience - with Ultima's pSX Frontend, I can play any game I have ripped, with pSX set exactly as I want, with a couple of mouse clicks.
Come to that, I can do the same with CDs - if I want to spend the time hunting out the one I want - and if it's a protected CD, I don't even have to waste time setting a plugin to play the subcode track. And the drives I have that will read the subcode directly are none of the ones you mentioned - come to think of it, I don't think I've ever owned an Hitachi drive.
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The only reason why most don't use the internal plugin is because it doesn't provide read caching, which is likely to be changed in the future.
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You mean, after more than 4 1/2 years, ePSXe is going to be updated again? Strange - now why can't I bring myself to believe that?