This is exactly what JAMMA was meant to be.
No wire swapping or cutting or altering control panels. Just swap the board and a minimal amount of artwork and it's a new game.
Sounds like the way you want to go.
Some of those games on your want list could work in the same cabinet too.
Atari System II-
720
Championship Sprint
APB
Paperboy
They all have DRASTICALLY different control panels, but the same basic harness will work. There are extra harness pieces between the games, but if you've got all the parts, a swap from one to another would take less than a half hour.
720 does have that giant control panel though- I don't know if a smaller version was made to put into a 'standard' System II cabinet.
Several Taito games will work in the same cabinet- Jungle King/Hunt, Elevator Action, Tin Star, Sea Fighter Poseidon (!!), Time Tunnel (!!!), Front Line, Wild Western. The rotary controller is hard to find though. I've got several, but I'm not selling
Another nice one is Konami- Amidar, Pooyan, Time Pilot '84, Super Cobra, what else? Megazone? Legendary Wings? - not too sure about that last one. At one time I had one of those cabinets and ten boardsets that would fit. Track and Field will boot up, but you can't control it with the standard CP of course.