Each of these games have mechanics in them that would be broken/exploited by having the ability to restore a save file to a previous version.

In Splatoon 2, you could restore a lost ranking, in Pokemon you could trade away all your pokemon then restore your save to get them back, in Dark Souls (which features perma-death as an option) you could die then restore your save to act as if nothing ever happened, etc. The sports games for whatever reason, have multi-gigabyte save files which are impractical to sync with a server.

While this may be Nintendo's decision, it isn't as silly or restrictive as some people are making it out to be.

People forget that the software author can always privately license software under whatever terms they like. The likelihood of a company like Intel improperly licensing a piece of software is highly unlikely when more likely is that they obtained a license allowing them to do with it what they want.

If I or anyone else publishes a work of open source software, we can always negotiate a different license with a company or individual to suit their purposes.

This isn't unlike the people who freak out when a company has a piece of software they've licensed as open source, but charge for it, then don't have the source freely available - because people think the GPL requires source to be given away when it doesn't. The source must only be made available at reasonable distribution/copying costs when the binaries are distributed. If I want to charge a million dollars for a piece of open-source software I've written, I don't have to give away the source to anyone except the person who bought a license to the software, but a different license can always be negotiated.

While I'm not familiar with airplay, Plex makes for a great and free media server/streamer that has apps on just about every ecosystem including Roku.

This is nothing new. Every manufacturer has a note about the number and/or type of acceptable dead/bright pixels on an LCD though they vary from manufacturer to manufacturer. In some cases, a display can have dozens of dead pixels as long as they aren't clustered together, where others will allow several dead pixels but no bright pixels.

This is nothing new and has been Nintendo's policy ever since the Gameboy Advance was released. But, if you're nice when you call support, you may be able to get it replaced, or of course, you could just swap the unit at the store. The same goes for any other LCD you buy.