Change my mind: Nintendo "Virtual Game cards" made the Switch experience worse

I did the system update, and suddenly all my downloadable games are "Card Missing". I just spend 20 minutes trying to play Lunar on the Switch after closing said software to do the update.

So now, if you have a secondary switch you can't just play your library. You have to download the virtual card for the game, **even ones that were virtually purchased,** from your main switch.

Every one. And if you're like me and bought digital Mario Kart so you didn't have to put the game into the system anymore no matter which one you picked up, this is an extra kick in the pants: You have to change the stupid v card if you want to play the DLC even with the physical card.

Am I over reacting? The ability to use it for physical games is intriguing but I feel they took away more than they gave with this.

Edit 1: Press your profile icon/picture on your Switch > scroll down to User Settings > go to Online Licence Settings > turn Use Online Licences on.

Thanks r/SoligDag, It’s better but I still hate it.

Now with that turned on there is an extra online check everytime I start a game on my secondary switch. And I still have to go through that Hokey Pokey for all the things I purchased. With the setting turned on the only thing that changes is I dont have to be physically near the “Primary” switch, you still have to “check it out” from the other one and the other one has to be online to do so.

Edit 2: back up all of your save files to the switches memory if you have any save files on the SD card.

[they don’t work from the Sd card after the update](https://youtu.be/5-n0uOxXHng?si=OOnlufC-DDcXiwC2)

Edit 3: Apparentely this is turned off by default in the Switch 2 UX. See report from u/Lythox - So I now found out in the virtual cards under the 'Options' button there is a 'Download data' which seems to download the game. Great, I can at least download my games again it seems, but what a bad UX design from nintendo. The fact you even have to find the obscure online licensing setting in the user settings is already bad, but then also hiding the download button like that. They should hire some competent designers -----

I'm dumbfounded. This can't be the only setting. They can't be making downloaded games bought on the Switch 1 this hard to play. It makes no sense.

———————————— Final edit: My Husband is still playing his switch but I haven’t touched mine since I made this post. I shouldn’t have to fix it so the damn thing can always be connected to the internet where it is when it worked there for the last few years being occasionally connected to the internet. Good job Nintendo, good job.