Nintendo used to be ahead of the curve with the N64, but you’re right that they’ve been trailing behind for a while now. The Switch still uses the Nvidia Tegra X1 CPU/GPU, which was released in 2015.

It’s a UI design tool. It’s what UI and UX designers use to create mockups that are then given to frontend programmers to implement.

Patenting obvious solutions is done all the time and perfectly fine from a legal point of view.

They didn’t need the army of lawyers to get license deals, so that’s not a fair comparison.

I’ve seen them used in power supplies that are not supposed to be user-servicable.

but will also work with a Phillips screwdriver

Only if you hate the screw and never want to see it in its full glory again.