When I was a kid my parents bought me Nintendo consoles, I logged hundreds of hours on my n64, and I could get games for 14$ or less. Then my parents got me the Gamecube, that was even more fun, but then the price of games went up to about 30$. Then the Wii came about, so I got that and about 10 games, but then the Wii U came out. I had to wait five years before I could get that because now I'm on my own, and college classes cost thousands of dollars. So luckily there was homebrew on it, because no way was I going to buy all those games. I do buy amiibo when I can since they're a lot cheaper.
Now we're at the Switch, and I'm definitely going to buy it (cause all my LoZ amiibo suddenly are worth 60$ each), but there's no way I'm going to be able to dish out 60$ every time a new game comes out (Save for Breath of the Wild because that game deserves to be bought), let alone afford the online service fee. But on my 3ds, the overclocking was a godsend for playing those O3ds games without frame drops, and being able to lower the brightness below the minimum for indoors play was great for the battery life. Not sure what homebrew will be like on the Switch, but anything is better than nothing, especially overclocking and emulators (No backwards compatibility this time around).