I agree with you (only like to play docked) but my son only plays it handheld. I bet it’s common for people to strongly prefer one way or the other, favoring either higher resolution more immersive graphics, or that intimate/private feeling of having the screen right in your hands.

I use mine in docked mode most of the time when home, but I love the ability to just bring it with me and play on long train rides and the likes. I also bring it when on vacation – it's portable enough that it's easy to just bring along the dock as well in case I want to hook it up to the hotel tv or such. I don't think I'd be interested in a console-only switch version to be honest, nor the Lite. The regular switch is just right, and ticks all the boxes for me.

It makes sense for large families, college students, kids who haul everything in backpacks, frequent travelers, and people who don’t own televisions.

I never take mine anywhere, and will definitely be looking to trade-in.

There's games that only work handheld (because of the touchscreen), though. Removing the ability to dock (without removing the ability to connect more controllers) doesn't split the library the same way removing the non-docked mode would.

I can live with that. Sacrifices were made for the Switch Lite, too.

They mention in the article that there are some games that won't work on the Switch Lite.

Agreed.

To add to this, with my new 3DS I have a non-subscription Virtual Console library of NES, SNES, Genesis, Master System, GB/GBC, GBA, TG16 as well as the existing DS, 3DS, and new 3DS games. That's a huge unique library of games that are on my backlog I want to play still going all the way back.

If you hack it, you can even re-package ROM files into the Virtual Console game wrappers and play ROM hacks from places like romhacking.net. There are some really crazy fun improvements. Such an example is Super Mario Land DX [0].

I would like a Switch, but it's not portable like the 3DS is portable and my backlog is huge. It's more like tablet or small laptop like portable and with a huge backlog I want to play, it's hard to justify. That said, I'll probably cave just to for Link's Awakening, I'm weak.

[0] https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/4477/

Sony tried that with the Vita TV and it did not do very well. Granted, they also handicapped it in stupid ways with a whitelist of compatible games. Anything that relied on the Vita's rear touchscreen wasn't allowed, though hackers have worked around that by mapping it to the touchpad of the Dual Shock 4.