banning preventing people from using Installed Software (one person actually referred to it as bricked)
Bans preventing use of Wifi hardware (FTP or Local play)
Banned Cartridges will get other Switches banned, or that cartridges are still getting banned
Those all just seem like misunderstandings from users who aren’t tech savvy, coupled with a little bit of urban legend gossip.
It’s possible to brick your Switch in a handful of ways, but that doesn’t mean Nintendo did it.
Officially the wifi is only used to connect to Nintendo services, so a user might think that the wifi doesn’t work when Nintendo doesn’t work (because they’re banned).
Stories about dodgy cartridges have always been a thing.
Unfortunately Popular Culture tends to prefer the first type of person’s opinion so I’ve found that when discussing Homebrew with people outside of the community
Hah, yeah homebrew stuff isn’t generally meant for proper conversation. You’re either interested and ok with it, or you see it as just about piracy.