Switch online requires Phone App? Why is no one talking about this?

[Soundwave]

Adamblaziken said:

Soundwave said:

The reasoning could be that this is Nintendo's way of preventing kids from communicating/playing with people they shouldn't be playing with, most young kids don't have their own smartphone, so they'd either have to be old enough to have their own phone or use their parents phone to play online, which alerts the parent that their kid is playing a game online. 

Most kids have a smartphone and the parents should know what the kids are doing anyways. Sounds like an added feature

I don't know many 6/7/8 year olds with their own phone. This can also easily show the parent who their kid is playing with/communicating with, because most parents are not going to turn on the game console and go through the menus and do all that.