Functionally speaking, the Switch did function as a successor to the 3DS for a lot of people. Anecdotal, but it was mainly a 3DS successor at the office, and more of a 3DS/Wii successor in my own household - although, to this day I still play Wii games—mainly VC titles like Chrono Trigger, which I replayed very recently.
In my office, we’d play Mario Kart, Monster Hunter, and other games during lunch. This was replaced by Switch’s Mario Kart 8 and Smash Bros Ultimate among other games (there was one called Don’t Starve Together we played a lot last year).
I describe myself as a little dose of toxic masculinity.