You deserve a slap for that. Dont win arguments that way.
There is a medium high likelyhood, that they will marry their license validation to your switches serial number.
The rest is - what happens if that data gets out.
I believe they use the same brand, but it might not be the same company. They went dark for quite a while - afair.
Not confirmed (the you can payload anything), they could have implemented a signature check for payloads, f.e.
(Rembeber, they seem to be heavy into DRM - this time around)
If "launching" would be the only concern - yes. Absolutely.
But - information as of today (unconfirmed) is, that they might also put software into your switches nand. If that is the case - several other questions arise:
- Can it be deteceted by N
- Can you still update OFW
- What does this mean in regards to using OFW
- Can Nintendo prevent them from putting that blob on there with future firmwares...
The "loading a payload" via f-g part is pretty failsafe, as far as we understand - but we don't understand the impacts of their "only need dongle/tool the first time around" comment yet. if system partitions are permanently changed - all of a sudden, now TX is responsible for "keeping your switch going" - and as they chose to go with DRM and a license model - no one else might be able to help you - if they "disappoint".
There are two important questions - they will have to answer:
1. How does their update path look like (because you are locking yourself to their ecosystem (DRM)).
2. How do you get "away from it" (restore original nand dump a possibilitiy?)
It might not be able to switch from them to "another vendor" (or open source solution source) easily - so this is something that has to be addressed.