

They aren’t breaking people’s consoles, they are banning them from online services. That means you can’t use the eshop or play online in multiplayer games. I personally don’t like that they are doing this, but I can understand why. If someone can execute unsigned code to get higher fps, they can probably make cheats for games and theoretically destroy the experience for other people online. While the situation does suck, it’s not without any reasoning.
I don’t believe it prevents you from using physical games like the real ones not the code ones. I didn’t realize that you can’t get updates and that the code carts are so common now I thought that it was just eshop and online play didn’t work anymore which were both essentially non issues on switch 1. You just had to buy your games physical