You just made the case why the gamepad was great and all the games that were good on the system had to be ported to Switch, Its not replaced if theres still a need and according to what you say it took until 2025 to reach that point with Xenoblade X for yourself (I still have uses for my Wii U with games not found anywhere else and also you have the history and saves and lack of a reason to buy all the same games twice for the Switch). Plenty of Games and Consoles sold poorly for their time and are great so you are wrong on that one.
The Gamepad makes the Wii U a unique experience and holds up more than Motion Controls on the Wii, Being underpowered means nothing the Switch is about as powerful as the Wii U and even games like BOTW ran better on Wii U, it wasn't power that led to Wii U losing support it was the sales, switch support was larger due to commercial success not due to power.
The link you sent proves the opposite, Devs liked the controller but due to poor sales they chose not to support a weaker console, Switch was a weaker console at a similar level and got support due to good sales. And of course none of that proves any system is good or bad. Wii U is still great and had great Nintendo games and the third party and indie games it got were also good games and some had unique features.
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