How long should Nintendo save your data when you aren’t paying them? Why should they keep it for any length of time?

Nintendo has qualification processes because bad games almost destroyed the industry in the 80s.

Steam doesn’t ensure quality. How would steam possibly try to charge for internet access on a device they didn’t produce, control, or sell you?

Businesses charge users for things that users value. Simple as that. It isn’t unique to Nintendo or the games industry. Cell phone folks charged for texts that didn’t cost them anything to deliver. Why? People valued texts and were willing to pay. We got out of that because of Apple but now people are angry at Apple about it.