I also think that's not a "intended feature" either.
As in, they designed those games with a single save file in mind, the fact that you can have "multiple" by switching profiles likely isn't intentional as those are meant to "represent different users", it's just a non-bad side effect of the profile system.
...I don't really understand games with single save files either though. Unless their expectation for their playerbase really is "they'll play it once, finish it then put it down"
I *soooorta* understand it for Pokemon, from purely a perspective to """incentivize trading""" but they aren't the only games that do it.
Single save file is one of those scenarios where I ask myself "do the devs even play videogames?"
Yeah its probably just happenstance for Pokemon but for some games it does seem to be. Going back to Origami King for a second, when you're at the title scren it literally makes you pick between the profiles and shows a little snapshot of their current progress. Pretty sure every prior Paper Mario had multiple save files so its a little huh???
Or you can just do another file and you get the other Urshifu / Regi / Horse and you're happy ! That's what I've done !
It is really shocking how easy this made things and that Home was....even easier! I thought FOR SURE you would need some special other account but no, its as easy as swapping profiles in the app itself, access the full suite of features and everything.
side note the profile thing kiiiind of does make me wonder if it was a reasoning behind putting the wolf at the end of the post game. And hell Eternatus has to wait a long, long time too, you get him in the penultimate battle of the game. & you can't even capture the regi until the end of the game (due to level caps) and Calyrex/the horse requires you become champion even if you sneak your way through at the start. Kubfu is the only one of the legends you can get "normally".
one of those "ok, you can do this, but if you want to abuse it you
really got to work for it"
I mean probably not, they just thought it'd be an interesting capstone to the game (for the wolves, eternatus) or are in content meant for post-release and post-game, but when you're quasi-speedrunning a game for a handful of pokemon the conspiracy boards go up nevertheless