Hot tae in anticipation of Switch 2 - Nintendo Switch Online isn't that bad nowadays

I plan to sub to online sometime this year in anticipation of a new Mario Kart 9 game or whatever the successor is. The announcement got me to pick up Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and try to do the courses again. I miss the feeling of playing online and haven't done so for 4 years or more now.

I'll try to get to point. I see so many people whining about online subscription. I think there's a sense of clinging back to those 2019 or 2020 times when the infrastructure was weak and subscripting to NSO was very questionable at best, because although I haven't renewed my subscription in years, I have browsed through eShop as well as spoke to my friend and we haven't really run into major issues online in the last few years.

If it was 2019 or something with a very very lackluster lineup, then perhaps it might not have been worth considering and I'd call that pretty bad, indeed. But I think nowadays you get a solidly big library, especially with Expansion Pass. There are definitely new classics every month. I feel that it has expanded enough to be worth consideration for picking up at least for me. As well as enough sweet deals to be of potential interest to some people. It works, so there is no reason for a radical change.

If you just care about online, the 20$ pricing is very sweet, economical deal. You might not think much of it now, but in 10 years, you'll be thankful for the cheap costs. I'm surprised NSO hasn't raised its prices yet, at least not the base subscription. Meanwhile, I could've sworn that Sony raised their Playstation Plus price a few times during its late PS4 and PS5 lifetime, and not only that, but their library is getting much and much worse. If you want 10 years of PS Plus, that's like 800 dollars. With NSO, it's 200$ or 500$ with expansion pass. Ah, but with a family plan, you could potentially save up a lot of money and still have the full experience, while Playstation Plus doesn't even let you have an online storage with a family plan!

Anyways, right now, the other consoles feel like they are dropping the ball, such as Sony's PS Plus price raise. Might be good short term, but in the long term it will bite them in the back. Why pay 80$ for online while you could just be economic and do 20$ for NSO? I guess I could be biased though because like... almost none of PS games interest me, but still, I think this much for online experience is a bit much for PS.

I know the main aspect people love to rag on is how the online experience FEELS as a whole, but I really really have not run into any issue which only leaves me more confused as to why the disdain for that. Is Sony's online experience really this solid, much more so than Nintendo?