Probably won’t buy Switch 2 because consoles are really expensive in my country, main reason why I bought Switch lite and not normal Switch is price. From TTYD source code it seems like Switch 2 will be 4K so price will most likely be out of reach for me.
Your experience from 80s is similar to my experience now with Switch games (it’s not the same only because I’m not a kid). Download times do suck but I have a really simple solution for them: I simply do something else until it’s finished. And there are great games that don’t take much space space on your storage, Balatro is first one that comes to mind.