While that may be true, people who voted may not have thought about how upset they would be should Nintendo nix the side of the hybrid design they actually use more often. I suspect this is what
@Lord Azrael meant. Admittedly, I didn’t even think about it that way until just now.
Anecdotally, I play Switch docked 99.9% of the time. If the successor was portable only, I’d buy it like I bought other Nintendo handhelds, but I wouldn’t be happy about it. Backwards compatibility is coolio and all. However, I buy next generation hardware to play new games.