Nintendo seems to have updated its eShop guidelines in an effort to filter out what's been commonly dubbed "eslop," or slightly more formally, shovelware, and a number of developers talking to IGN shared a similar sense of being encouraged but wanting more.
If you haven't noticed, the recommendation pages in a number of gaming storefronts, but most prominently the Switch eShop, have become inundated with low-quality, misleading, seemingly AI-generated, and often adult-themed titles from obscure developers and publishers, making it harder for players to discover genuinely worthwhile indies and thus harder for indie developers to find breakout success.
