The only way this would make any sense is if the Game Card port of the Switch (and a design for its successor) costs enough to be worth removing. And I'm going to imagine it doesn't. Optical drives are a different beast that save Sony and Microsoft some money when they are not included in their consoles. Not to mention they free up a little space in the dimensions of the console.
You also have to consider consumer preferences. Nintendo is the most relevant console maker in Japan right now, and Japanese consumers tend to like physical media more than the USA or other markets.
Japan and some European markets are also much more cash-heavy societies than the USA. What makes more sense: buying a physical game with cash or buying eShop cards with cash to buy games that are available physically? The answer is pretty obvious.
I would only go for such a console if the games were available through a Steam-like Nintendo store, where the games will all be playable on future Nintendo systems and when you buy a new Nintendo system, you can download all the games you purchased for the previous system.
Nintendo haven't mentioned anything about this in any context. If they were thinking about such a move, I reckon they would have had some dev share their thoughts on the matter so as to gauge reception. (Y'know, like how they talked about a family of systems etc.)
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Just posting to say that last year me made some solid points on this necro thread. Not sure we need to discuss this much any further, I think I've sufficiently beaten this theory into submission already
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