However, it's also true that the stories in NintendoLife's article deal with several developers, even long-standing eShop partners, who have encountered important difficulties in approaching people to talk with due to partial mismanagement / not enough allocation of resources for the team. And this is NOT positive, even in presence of a curated approach: communication between companies and developers is important. Do you remember that Eurogamer article with the tale of an unnamed developer working on a Wii U launch game? That was a sign of a hardware vendor not ready for a major launch, which resulted in the developing environment suffering. Unfortunately, I can understand extremely small developers (even in the indie world) having to wait more than others to get dev-kits, it's the gradual distribuition and availability of dev kits, but here it seems that there could have been a bit too much stingyness in play, even for a curated approach. Recently, Damon Baker made it so devs on Twitter can DM him pitches for games on Switch, which is a potential more direct way to communicate with the company: not a recipe for unquestionable success, though given that we have both a positive outcome (Robert Zeboyd) and a negative one (Gualtica). But yes, there seems to be a biit more openess right now (we've had different recent announcements coming from devs who also announced they wee just certified as eShop devs), and I'm sure it'll keep on going. Hopefully, dev kits and communciation become as reasonably spread as possible.
Speaking of discoverability...yeah, I'm going to criticise the current eShop setup as well: it's not awful, I like how clean it is, but we've already heard stories of games disappearing from the "available content" cathegory because its tiles are limited (for now). Plus, there are no special cathegories right now - except for current charts, which can be useful as a discoverability tool as well, sure, but it's still not enough. I am absolutely sure the eShop's layout will keep on getting updates, but, as said earlier, I hope they act fast enough.