thank you for this thead! two keywords, marketing and gamepad
when marketing didn't work, word of mouth did not either, the gamepad was just a big unappealing, unnecessary thing, and that's exactly why the games work great on switch without it
had they stick with WiiU remotes and a Pro controller, things would be very different, instead the chose an expensive, unconfortable thing as the main selling point
the gamepad killed the Wii brand, should have only been a peripheral, like the Wii balance board for example
don't mind my username, that was more than 10 years ago, I'm a different person now, amazing how people change ^_^