First time I played Half Life. I was only using quick save and quick load. I fall off the platform in Xen I hit quick load, but instead pressed quick save. Now my only save is of me half way through a fall to my doom.
If you don't want to pay, you should at least be able to save onto a SD card which could be transferred to another Switch or backed up on a PC. Though it wasn't perfect, Sony had that back on the PSP.
Sadly, that would mean save duplication would be possible - which is a huge no-go for the Switch for some godforsaken reason. Fuck Nintendo, sold my account, got the Deck, and now my data is backed up instantly, for "free" (price included in the 30% fee). Not like it's more than a fre hundred KBs per game anyway.
Legit dropped Nier:Automata after it auto failed me for taking the "wrong" path to a boss fight. Hadn't saved for a while and didn't feel like redoing all that progress because the game arbitrarily decided to kill me.
Reminds me of Suikoden 2. One of the first PS1 titles I picked up. Didn't even know I needed a memory card to save when I bought it. But my parents couldn't take me to the store again for a few days, so I just played and kept it on overnight.
About half way through the game is a duel that is basically paper rock scissors. And game over if you lose.