Folks at the time specifically harped on Nintendo for its online perspective being naive and outdated, and to be fair, it was!
But in a world in which an always-on internet connection with vendor software updates means ever more elaborate ways to sneak in ads, rent you your own data, and exfiltrate your data to soulless content farms, a device with community updates, simple tools, the ability to post, and the ability to stay fully offline is the absolute best thing.