> I am a little jealous of my friends with switches. They seem to "just work" 99% of the time.
I don't know what our household's problem is then. We've had nothing but problems with joycon connections across three devices. Repeatedly one of the two controllers would fail to pair with the switches despite being physically docked. I've got to the point where I told my girls I'm not trying to help fix it anymore and they should play games on one of the many other options they have. Mostly they play games on PC now.
If you're willing to give them a shot, 8bitdo makes wireless controllers that are Switch and PC (+ Apple and Android) compatible that work way better than the official Nintendo ones. I've never seen any weird connection behavior in contrast to our joycons and pro-controller, not even counting the tweezer surgery I had to do to replace Nintendo's drifty sticks.
I don't know what our household's problem is then. We've had nothing but problems with joycon connections across three devices. Repeatedly one of the two controllers would fail to pair with the switches despite being physically docked. I've got to the point where I told my girls I'm not trying to help fix it anymore and they should play games on one of the many other options they have. Mostly they play games on PC now.