Becksworth
Aging Hipster Dragon Dad
No matter how much you sandbox a browser. If you give people the ability to run arbitrary code off the internet there is a good chance they will find a buffer overflow or something else they can exploit, which is why the Switch browser is as locked down and limited as it is.Internet browser is definitely a combination of "this is too much work to implement when you definitely have a phone that already does this" and "this is how the console got hacked in like every other instance." All the UI stuff is probably to make it look more like a big boy device as well; the UI mada a lot more sense to me when I stopped comparing it to a 3DS and started comparing it to a Roku. Why wouldn't an entertainment device draw design cues from other entertainment devices, right?
(I know that there technically is a browser in there, but I mean a proper, user-accessible one)
Now I’m thinking back to the eShop game that had a Ruby interpreter snuck into it and how Nintendo went scorched earth on the dev.