Glitches
I'm genuinely so just on my last nerve with the stability of this game. It is so hard to bug hunt, and almost near impossible for epic bugs when the very game itself is fighting against you.
My aunt and I have been hunting for a ⭐Rainbow Tipped Butterfly for A WEEK. And we finally found one and we hit it multiple times and then it glitched into a rock, stopped registering smoke bomb hits entirely, and then promptly disappeared right in front of our eyes. This is not the first time something like this has happened. I've played this game for YEARS and truthfully it used to be much easier to bug hunt when I first started this game. And it has just devolved more and more over the years. They keep prioritizing updates to the PC and not any for the Switch at all. It even runs like hot garbage on the Nintendo Switch OLED, which is the one right before the Switch 2. And I'm so tired of hearing the same excuses that it's because the Switch is outdated or it can't handle the graphics or all these other garbage reasons. When the Switch lite runs games like Legend of Zelda: Breathe of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom both FLAWLESSLY with zero crashes or glitches and those games are WAY more graphically heavy and mechanic heavy than Palia could ever even dream to be. There is legitimately zero excuse for the way this game runs on the Switch. There's way too much focus on the premium store and outfits and accessories and not enough focus on gameplay and bug fixes. But boy I tell you every time there's a glitch that lets players make more money they fix that the very day it's discovered.
Also, please don't reply to this if you're just gonna say "Go buy a PC". As if everyone has $500+ dollars to pull out on a random Tuesday and go buy a PC for shits and giggles just to play a video game. If I saved money for a PC it wouldn't be to play Palia, it would be for much more important things.
If the game "doesn't run well on the Switch" and seemingly never will, it should've never been released on the Switch in the first place.
There's such a large community of Switch players that want to enjoy this game and spend time playing alone or with friends and just have a good time, but it's hard to when you can't enjoy the basic mechanics of the game that are necessary to even do things in the game like Bundles and quests.
Delete this if y'all want, but it's not just me who has this opinion. And this is as polite as I could word it.