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You also need to be willing to spend money for Nintendo's online services. That's one of the reasons why I don't bother with completion, anymore. I'm not giving them money for a lackluster service.
It really should be. At least the 'playing games with others' part. I get charging for the VC rental stuff, but not everyone wants or cares about that stuff.
NSO isn't as bad as certain other consoles' online stuff, but yeah... I'm not big on it myself.
Iirc Home has a free box you can use, but that only matters for moving stuff between Switch games. Need the paid version if you want to import stuff from older games.
I agree with Megan, Alex and Lav that NSO should be free, it's one thing if they charge for the retro games; but there's no good reason Switch online should cost money when 3DS / Wii U online was free, and NSO is roughly the same quality those were.
I don't really play any of the Mario games. I used to, but I've more gotten into the habit of just playing Pokémon games, so all of my Nintendo Switch games are Pokémon.