SolarFlare13

Might be worth seeing if the price of a full-feature switch drops after the lite comes out - that definitely comes with the adaptor (plus the hdmi cradle has a usb switch for the cheaper wired second-player controllers)

Yeah, it's just...I've been hearing A LOT of reports about the ol' Nintendo Switch having defects (such as cracks A.K.A the plastic expanding, the screen getting scratched / scuffed when being put into the dock, 20% of them are affected by defects, etc.) and while the extra battery life makes it awfully tempting (not to mention the convenience of playing on a flat-screen TV), here's the thing: I only have ONE flat-screen TV at home and it's small...and there's BARELY any space to put the dock...and my family uses it ALL the time. Not only that, the NEW Switch is probably gonna be MORE expensive than the current one...and lemme tell ya, the current one costs about $400. IF they made a Switch (that can switch) that's $350 or less, I would be more interested in getting one, but...that's Australia for ya: inflated price tags. So that's why the Nintendo Switch Lite is the perfect console for me.

Well, from experience...

The touchscreen is much like that of a mobile phone or tablet - the sensible owner gets a screen protector early, and if it gets badly scuffed, you can pop it off and replace it cheaply.  You could also put a microfibre cloth between the screen and the dock when positioning it, but would need to be careful not to cover the cooling vents along the top edge. I don't really use the supplied dock - I found a much more compact one on Amazon that I use, as (with one exception) if I am using the device docked, its at a friend's house and I don't want to have to haul the whole kit there:

But that said, I don't *own* a TV - when I wish to play games that require the switch docked (which is really just those that need the controllers undocked, so mario party, oddessy, and most definitely Starlink) I use the monitor for my game computer's hdmi input.

A/C adaptors are cheap too, although I would be astonished if it didn't come with one, and of course you can use a usb-c cable on any generic usb phone charger at a pinch (doesn't charge as fast though, as the switch uses the usb-c 15v charging mode if available, and requires it for the dock)