And crazy how not only can tools recognize birds but generate novel new images of them.

No, mostly it was the government funded engineers and scientists that work at SpaceX that mastered reusable rockets.

Check the pins on the joy-con side and switch side to make sure they aren’t damaged or full of junk, try with a friends joy-con if you can to test it’s not the Switch tablet. If those look clean, try unplugging and re-plugging the internal battery of the joy-con and try recharging. If that doesn’t work and the joy-con motherboard doesn’t look damaged from liquid etc, you can try a new battery from Amazon for the joy-con for pretty cheap before calling it quits on that controller.

Source: I’ve repaired 100s of Switches and joy-cons for my business.

Only when they allow real sideloading without a server/Paid Apple Dev License

EU regulations banned that idea from taking place thankfully