Yes that’s right, and I realised I could no longer be a historic game hardware collector with that generation of consoles which killed my main hobby at the time. Years of Nintendo loyalty and, dare I say it, fandom, were betrayed and the Wii itself was just awful.
I don’t know, I’ve definitely seen things like this in continental Europe but in the UK (here) the most they’ve displayed here is the time and temperature (which is often wrong but that’s another thing). That’s not a judgement, just as observation.