It's a shame. The beautiful thing about Switch game cards is that you can just pop them in and play. Compare that to PS5 where you have a lengthy installation followed by a 40GB download...
As other people have observed, some Switch games did this too, in part or whole, it just wasn't branded as a distinct feature like this, the games just said "you need to download a day 1 update", like in your example.
I have yet to run into a single-player or local multiplayer Switch game that is not playable offline with just the cartridge.
Some single-player games have updates, but I think you can usually play the original version while you download the update, and the update usually isn't 40GB.
At least personally, I've resigned myself to games being purely digital and most of my games aren't carts for the Switch, but I believe a number of the smaller indie games were basically just download codes in a box, or a cart that required downloading some of the core functionality. (I wanted to say it was Goat Simulator for Switch that I was thinking of, but I can't find any proof of this.)
