That might be US only, where the companies have freedom to get all the customer’s data and do with it as they will.

This

There’s a little square recessed area on the bottom of the pink part, which I just now noticed. Might be some kind of locking mechanism?

Or it could be for the strap portion.

They’ll probably at least try to somehow make the mig switch non-functional on the switch 2, which could cause some other games to not work.

Well said good sir or madam!

Yeah, I’m just watching/playing the content, I’m fine doing that without the license, which is the paid part anyway, right?

They are from Japan, so yakuza? They probably just hire local muscle, though.