You are missing out.

I seriously am

I'll probably get it when I'm done with all my current games

Im not a fan of Awakening being 2. I thought it was an average at best game that was greatly surpassed by Fates

Way inferior to OoT and MM3D.

Never played fates. Did play awakening though.

I think a lot of people skipped them due to the fact that they're remakes.

If you look at the voting thread some people said that they'd skip out on remakes and instead vote for original games only

I see the exact opposite, it has more "must owns" than DS imo.

Not surprised by the number 1. It's the only 3DS game I consider to be very, very good. Kid Icarus and Luigi are definitely up there, though.

Oh, the price and marketing certainly didn't help matters, I agree. But having more games on the system to advertise and, in turn, advertise the system would've led to more sales and more people would have been willing to stomach the price because there would've been so many great to amazing games on the system to choose from.
We always talk about how the PS4 and Xbox One are the biggest threats and competitors to Nintendo on the console side of things and on the other hand, mobile gaming is eating and crippling the handheld market day by day, a market which Nintendo has dominated for decades, now is suddenly evaporating.
But one thing that I think everyone overlooks, in my view, is that the biggest competitor and biggest threat to Nintendo is... Nintendo.
What I mean by that is, because they were developing games for 2 different systems with different hardware, even though they didn't intend to, they essentially had the 3DS and the Wii U competing against each other for 1st party support, and the 3DS won that war because of obvious reasons, I mean look at Sony with the PS4 and the Vita.
This is why, no matter what NX turns out to be, at the very least, it needs to be the only hardware that Nintendo is developing, whether it's a handheld, a console, or both, it needs to be just one system, so Nintendo can focus all their dedicated gaming software on that one, which leads to more games, more games leads to more advertisement for those games, which leads to more advertisement for the system (Hey, look at this new system we made that has all these amazing games to play on it. More than any other system in our history!), more advertisement leads to more sales, more sales leads to 3rd parties hopping onboard. 

People may have passed Fates due to the controversy surrounding these games (It being 3 seperate games, localization changes and the removal of petting) That's probably why Awakening was voted over it. Though I would agree Fates is ahead of Awakening.