It's generally not worthwhile to try to get meaningful answers from someone who drank the Nintendo flavor-aid. Nintendo is a company that willingly chose to produce and monetize their software in this way. Nobody made them do anything. They wanted this, chose this, and brought this sort of thing to market.
They also took your ability to buy their games away (ownership such as it was) and forced you to buy a subscription to their Switch Online program just to own games you've probably already purchased at least once. Anyone that defends their approach is delusional at best.
As I said in another comment, the industry deliberately or otherwise basically polluted the mobile gaming space and made it effectively impossible to sell a conventional $20-60 one-and-done game. There's a few, but you can nearly list them on your fingers and I'm sure you can list the successful ones on one hand easily.
I'd actually love to peer into the alternate universe where the Apple app store tried harder to establish that applications aren't universally disposable cups-of-coffee price level apps. Would the mobile game space still be the cesspool it is in our universe? There are certainly some forces pulling it towards cheap diversions and the resulting methods of extracting money, but might they have a robust non-cesspool gaming community?
When phones first came out everyone was sure having a console in your pocket was going to destroy the rest of the gaming industry. While I've always thought the opinion underestimated the pains of having a touchscreen-only interface, I also blame the monetization techniques. I don't even look to cell phones for games anymore because I don't have the energy to pour over the details of how they want to hook up gambling mechanics to my credit card to see if I'm interested. I hope the mobile gaming industry enjoys being beholden to their whales because I bailed out years and years ago.
Nintendo dipped in, and probably they shouldn't have, but to my eye they haven't particularly enjoyed it either and are getting out it. It would be better if they had never done it at all, but considering everyone else in the industry has simply jumped into the pool with gusto, they at least seem to be course correcting.
And if that constitutes "drinking the Nintendo flavor-aid" to you, well, screw you too.
They also took your ability to buy their games away (ownership such as it was) and forced you to buy a subscription to their Switch Online program just to own games you've probably already purchased at least once. Anyone that defends their approach is delusional at best.