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Wman1996 said:

It's understandable. I think developers at Nintendo were getting exhausted using Switch's weak hardware. Metroid Prime 4 is cross-gen out of obligation, and Pokémon Legends Z-A seems to be the game to transition Pokémon players out of Switch and on to Switch 2. Even if a Black and White remake years from now could run on Switch, there's almost no way it will be cross-gen. It won't come out until at least 2028 and that's about 3 years or more after Switch 2 launched.
DK and Mario Kart were developed as Switch games first, but the vision for the games evolved. They didn't need to be weighed down by Switch.

Yeah I love the Switch 1, but by the end its life it was falling so far behind in power that I think a lot of devs were finding it hard to work with. For Nintendo's devs it must have been nice to finally have some more breathing room.