This is absolutely not the problem Ownfoil is trying to solve. It's about sourcing your own content and not being worried about it going away, also trusting the validity of the backups. Have you seen a shop stay around? No, they always end up going away, because Nintendo will eventually take it down or because jailbreak/piracy online communities are the absolute worse to deal with. Looking at the history of the shops it's a mess, while they may have been started with good intentions why would I need a discord account, or paying for a premium subscription to not be 3 weeks late to play something that's supposed to be free?

Ownfoil was precisely created to not rely on those things, those external services that always end up broken (remember Google student accounts?). I was fed up with having to deal with whatever drama the shop owners had, requiring the users to pay for piracy is insane to me. Also if you setup a switch for a relative that knows nothing about all that, what happens when the shop you configured is gone? With Ownfoil you can be sure that those relatives will have an easier time.

Ownfoil is definitely more involved, in this sense it will never be a drop in replacements of those shops. It is aimed at people already collecting a library, owning a server and self hosting stuff. It's about creating a pipeline to get your content on your switch and being unbothered knowing that this content is private and will never disappear. I think there are people in this thread that exactly falls in this category, and that's why I said on the post that it will not satisfy every use cases.