Aren't you letting perfect be the enemy of good here? You are looking for a unicorn and likely will never find it.
Mondez
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They released the engines for the games minus 3rd party libraries they didn't have rights to. Working builds were available within a day of the code being released as people found copies or wrote replacements for the missing code.
The switch itself implements the DRM and can play any official physical game without issue.
If it keeps newcomers from making mistakes in client choice it looks like a good thing to me?
Nope, the game will work regardless of what Nintendo do, though you are right they can kick you off their online platform. That isn't them deciding what happens with your physical copy though that is them deciding who can access their servers for what ever arbitrary reason they decide. In fact if they kick you off, the only games you'll still be able to play are the physical ones.
Can I put second hand carts in my switch and play? Yes I can.
This isn't strictly true because most games do still have a playable version on the disk. What is more is that it's not as straight forward to revoke a disc, especially for passive media and the license is legally transferable due to doctrine of first sale as I understand it.
But once you have it's output, unless you already know enough to judge if it's correct or not you have to fall back to doing all those things you used the AI to avoid in order to verify what it told you.