He says he just wants a better 3DS so the lite fits that perfectly.
It's not £20-30 it's £50-60, that's taking into account the money you get back for the dock, not insignificant for those who don't have a lot of cash for luxuries like a Switch.
The Switch can be easily had for £260 if you check HotUKDeals (even £240 new if you trust those sources...), so taking off the £30 for selling the dock and PSU (I use a £1.50 USB-C cable to charge mine) makes it £30 difference to the £200 Lite.
If drift ends up a thing on the Lite I wouldn't be happy. I can't deny though that it is a desirable bit of kit. For me though some games need a TV (Mario Kart, Splatoon 2, BoTW, Mario Odyssey) - personal preference obviously. Anyway it's the buyers choice and either way you'll have access to a great and growing library of games.
It already has for some people. It uses the same joystick internals as the joy con, which is going to be fun when sending it into Nintendo to repair.
They have an annoying habit of wiping system memory during repairs (they did with mine when investigating my joy con disconnecting issues), so you can say goodbye to your Pokemon, Splatoon, or any of the other saves that can't be backed up (or all your saves if you don't pay for Nintendo online) if you have to send the whole console in for repair.
I'm very grateful that I can just send in the joy cons and keep playing with other controllers and not risk losing my saves.
Edit: I forgot to add that rumble is completely missing from the Lite, and some games are also not compatible with the system.
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