Actually they are kinda forcing me to "hack" my Switch because I have otherwise no ways of backing up my saves. True, they are not technically forcing people to pirate the games since they can still buy cartridges, but banning the eshop certainly gives us digital lovers a lot of incentive to do so.You've answered your own question.
You can still buy physically, and they made it clear that if you hack your switch you would lose access to Nintendo's services.
By breaking Nintendo's TOS you can only blame yourself for the loss of eShop access, not Nintendo.
They're not forcing you to pirate, you would be choosing to.
Still not saying that I will do that, especially now that it seems the eshop ban only applies to CDN exploiters.