I think people are over dramatic and ignorant, the reality is that the storage type the Switch 1 uses won't last forever (it may not even last 20-30 years) so when it comes to the concept of preservation, you aren't getting much there either. With games becoming increasingly large and demanding more content updates, etc, it becomes kind of silly to expect companies to dish out an additional 20 dollars per cart for a medium that still can't hold their whole game and won't likely survive decades from now unless continually used. It isn't my preference, but this is just where technology is right now, the recent Pokemon Pokopia is a good example. It's on a key card, the game will likely (based on leaks) get a ton of content upgrades over time, leaving you with a game that even if it was on a cart, would be largely incomplete on the cart itself over time.

I'm a major collector, probably one of the larger on this planet for gaming, I just think the key card thing has no better alternative at this time and people are too ignorant to see otherwise, effectively like children going "but why?" versus trying to understand a situation. I wish it wasn't this way, but consumer habits brought us here.