I'll share what I posted earlier in the OT about our sharing experience. While I knew we were sharing an island and even looked forward to it, the restrictions were a blindside.
The family Switch sharing experience has a lot of drawbacks, but thankfully it isn't as bad as the rumors let on yesterday. I told my wife to create her character first so she is the "ambassador" or whatever, and that means she is the only one that can "move the town forward". She has to talk to Nook or Blathers to get stuff built, but I was able to donate the required number of items to Blathers. I just couldn't get the ball rolling after that, or choose the plots for new buildings...or contribute to building them. So in order to improve the town I have to either ask her or log on her profile. I imagine this will even out as the game ages, but I'm almost certain I'll never be able to terraform on my profile. If only her profile can operate common town functions then its going to get old fast.
The "splitscreen" multiplayer is fun but clunky and strange. You can't even use your tool wheel if you are not the leader, so I have to cycle through like 7 tools if I had duplicates (easy when they break so quickly). Switching the leader is very easy, and I noticed it literally swaps what profile is playing the game, according to the Switch. Very odd when you normally have to close a game completely! Unless you are the leader literally everything you touch gets sent to that box in the resident center, but its quite quick to swap leader and drop/pick up items for who needs them. You also get Nook Miles credit as a secondary player, but you can't check them or redeem them unless you are swapped to leader. It would be nice to visit random islands as a team, but nope - not possible.
