I think my thing with more power is that while it CAN be nice, no one even bothers to use it until the latter half of a generation aside from adding some better textures.
It only promotes creativity for about half a console gen. The other half is spent porting everything backwards to the previous generation and pretending the newer tech doesn't exist except as a prettiness buff.
It's part of why every system "has no games" at first. Not only do people not bother making games for anything until further in, they port most of the games they do make over to the older system.
By the time a system actually starts making anything innovative, it's almost out the door.
So would it be nice if Nintendo kept up to at least base PS4/XB1 levels? Sure. And I think they might, considering the timing.
But I'm not going to harp on them for not instantly jumping to 4KVRXYZ, because people are going to be lazy garbage with everything until the last second. It's probably best if Nintendo makes things easier to port onto their systems, but anything beyond that doesn't really have that much incentive aside from people constantly jumping the gun.
Nintendo is going to get a heck of a lot of bad PR for not anticipating and going beyond Scorpio/Neo levels with the NX. But that doesn't mean the Scorpio/Neo are going to get any games I care about.