This was a big issue with WiiWare when Nintendo shut down the Wii Shop. People could keep what they had downloaded, but once the Shop shut down, you couldn't redownload anything.

> People could keep what they had downloaded, but once the Shop shut down, you couldn't redownload anything

You can still redownload things. Nintendo says at some point they'll turn that off, but they haven't said when yet.

Ah. My mistake. My point still stands: you're at the whims of Nintendo.

Download is only one way to buy Switch games, and at least I'll still be able to use one console - compared to zero as soon as I stop paying my feudal obligations to Apple.

Not every game on the Switch Store is available on cartridge

And almost every game available on cartridge has some kind of patch only downloadable from the store. Some don't even have all their data on the cartridge and need a download to function at all...