I threw a final $20 on the Wii shop channel, which makes my final balance to spend at 2300 points. In browsing the shop, I really don't know if there's any Wiiware that really compels me to buy beyond maybe the Final Fantasy ones mentioned in the podcast, and I need to do my homework a bit before I bite on one of those. I forgot how awful it was to enter credit card info to add points, how you couldn't add exactly the number of points you needed to make a purchase, and how little internal space there is on the Wii.
Despite those things, I feel fairly wistful about the whole experience of performing the ritual one more time before they close the gates. I got the Wii in College, and as someone who grew up in a Sega/Playstation household envying my cousins who had a NES/SNES/N64, it was an exciting experience getting-in fairly early in the life of the machine, and despite whatever faults the system had, it met my needs great at the time.
There were countless hours in my townhome room with the Wii menu background music humming along while I worked away, and the Wii Shop Channel music is so cheerful and inviting. I think it's that kind of personality that music brings that I miss being absent on the Switch.
I didn't think going through this process would be so cathartic.