If Switch 2 releases in 2025, it will compete most of its time with PS6 and the next XBox, so it would be 10th generation. I'd always consider the generational subdivision to be based on broad timing and subsequent competition.
The situation wouldn't be much different from Mega Drive releasing some time before SNES (two years in Japan), or Xbox 360 before PS3 and Wii. I agree the Switch 1's placement due to WiiU's failure is a bit blurry because it spent its time more or less equally divided competing against PS4/XBox One and then against PS5/XBox Series. This doesn't matter much though, because even if you'd consider Switch 1 to be 8th Gen instead, then Nintendo just didn't have a 9th Gen console. Atari for example also isn't considered to have had a 4th Gen system with the 7200 being considered 3rd and the Jaguar 5th.
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