It includes an expansion.

The only thing that would get me miffed is if the price - regardless of if it's 450 USD or just 150 USD - is if we were banking the US trade taxes.
Apparently that's not the case, so I don't have any reason to be upset.

I've generally been someone who doesn't care too much about prices of anything when it comes to non-essentials. Budgeting is all that's important. If it costs 170 CAD to get smashed at the bar on martinis, I wanna get smashed at the bar on martinis, and 170 CAD is on my fun budget, then I'm gonna go get smashed at the bar on martinis :D

If Switch 2 doesn't fit your budget, don't buy it and don't worry about it.

If Switch 2 is something you want but you don't yet have the money on your budget, like any other item, save until you do have enough. The Switch 2, factoring inflation in, is still a low budget gaming option providing 4K gaming on TV, and 1080p gaming in handheld mode with up to date hardware features.

If you don't have a budget, fix that NOW.
The best way to budget is to track your spending habits, and divide them into different streams, then plug your net income into the spreadsheet, and factor in any expected tax returns, investment returns, and gift/other money, and let the budget populate. It's fairly easy to set these up with basic spreadsheet skills. And if you want a tutorial on how to do it, feel free to ask on this forum - if not me, someone else here will probably get to you - people here are often helpful with information. Numbers, Excel, Sheets, and Calc all work about the same - and any version is sufficient (because new versions of Excel are subscription based).

If Switch 2 is something you want, and your budget accommodates it, grumbling about a relatively low price not being lower amounts to nothing.

Now, looking at the prices, I think people are looking at Mario Kart prices and thinking, this is the price of all the games. That's not the case. Some games you'll think are not worth the price, and that's always been true; there's a simple option here: don't buy them. Only buy the stuff you want, only buy the stuff you can budget for, and only buy the stuff you'll want to part with some of that budget for.

On a more personal note, I'm not a neoliberal/classical liberal sovereign citizen type, but when it comes to these sorts of planned impulsivity purchases, you can align me with:

Yeah, it ain't cheap but I never get disappointed by Nintendo games, so I really don't care all that much. I am quite certain that I will enjoy the console and Mario Kart for years to come. Unlike a lot of games on PS5 where I paid 60 euros and stopped playing after 5 hours or something because it got boring. I can rely on Nintendo to deliver high quality and that is something I can't say about any other publisher these days. Also, I don't care one bit about specs. I'm too old for that.

I am also in the comfortable situation that I don't really care about a few hundred bucks. That said, I can understand that you're kinda disappointed If you haven't got that luxury. A friend of my son was really turned off by the Switch 2 pricing. He wants to ask his parents to get the console for Christmas. But he's afraid he won't get it, because the price is too steep. I can relate to that, because I sure as hell wouldn't gift something for 500 bucks to my son for christmas, lol. I also can't tell him to just get a job. He's 11 years old. =D

Now does that mean that Nintendo is in trouble? Don't know, don't care. Probably not. I think they will just keep selling the old Switch for people who cannot or will not afford the new console and that's totally fine.

A nearly 3 year old game should never cost more than a brand new one, regardless of how many expansions it includes. 

That reasoning holds true for games that suck, but in this specific case it's just Kirby who sucks, not his game.

I have no issue with the $450 for the hardware in the USA (provided it doesn't go up due to tariffs). I was hoping for $400 like I hoped Switch would've been $250 back in 2017. But I did not expect 256 GB of storage, and a screen that is 120hz and HDR. I didn't even think 1080p was a given.
Software pricing is one of the biggest issues. Switch 2 editions of Switch games shouldn't be $70-$80, or even $60 if they have no new content.
$80 for Mario Kart World is too much. There aren't $80 games on other platforms.
Switch was so profitable that it was more profitable than everything from Nintendo to date combined even with inflation taken into account. Nintendo can absolutely charge lower prices for the games.

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The majority of the launch games for Switch 2 are old multi-plat games. It's okay if you're heavily invested in the Nintendo ecosystem but to say that PS5 and XBSX have next to nothing but Nintendo is marketing third party games that the other platforms had in 2020 makes your statement look foolish. 

I’m more referring to first-party releases. (Though playing those third-party releases on-the-go certainly has a degree of novelty to it. You can say Steam Deck and such can already do this, but your average consumer doesn’t own these alternative systems.) Nintendo’s slamming their fist down with two juggernauts within the first two months of release…meanwhile, after five years, PS5 has nothing more than a collection of asset-reusing sequels. Astro is cool, but DKBananza blows that out-of-the-water.

One and only reason you are not bothered by the price: because it's Nintendo and they can do no wrong in your eyes.

I decided to let go in the Sonic thread because you avoided the direct criticism pointed at you, by replying to something that you made up in your mind, after coming to the thread for the sole purpose of white knighting Nintendo, by being tremendously rude at the other side.

But the mental gymnastics you have to do to pretend you have any other reason to be ok with being made a fool by a massive corporation other blinding loving them is beyond pathetic.

The last paragraph is actually you talking about yourself and you just can't see it. Come on.

You said you are old, I'm also too old to care about an opinion I can see coming from a mile away, but this behavior hurts everyone else in the industry, so it's hard to just look at and let it go.