Yeah, Nintendo has a few issues with being unwilling to do what's best for business/customers in favour of something 'different' even when the new idea isn't any good and the simple one would work significantly better.
See also how they treated F-Zero, Star Fox, Paper Mario, Donkey Kong in the GameCube era, Chibi Robo, etc. All things which had a perfectly fine formula that would have made for fantastic games if Nintendo did what people expected, yet which ended up commercially failing or being abandoned due to an obsession with the 'new'.
It's nice to try and surprise people, but you have to also ask yourself "Is this new idea any good, or is it being different for the sake of being different?"
See also how they treated F-Zero, Star Fox, Paper Mario, Donkey Kong in the GameCube era, Chibi Robo, etc. All things which had a perfectly fine formula that would have made for fantastic games if Nintendo did what people expected, yet which ended up commercially failing or being abandoned due to an obsession with the 'new'.
It's nice to try and surprise people, but you have to also ask yourself "Is this new idea any good, or is it being different for the sake of being different?"