Not my favorite Nintendo handheld, but it did very well in it's short life cycle. Also Mother 3 is the GOAT.
I also remember those reading lights on airplanes being THE perfect GBA lamp.
Good news, GBA's can have backlit IPS screens now.The perfect system with the best games. It will never be eclipsed! If only the original model was backlit. SP and Micro hurt my hands.
This is the one I bought with Tony hawk 2. Also Minish Cap is the best Zelda.
While it is indeed a no brainer to put GBA games (and Gameboy games generally) on Switch for ultra easy accessibility, Gameboy hardware has to be some of the most easily accessible and easily modified (due to overall abundance of parts) retro hardware in existence. And because it has it's own screen, there's no component cable barrier to overcome for optimum experience. I still play my backlit modded AGB semi-regularly. By far the oldest console that sees regular use.
Software on the other hand is slightly harder to come by depending on your proximity to local game stores and the specific title you're talking about. 10 years ago was a treasure trove of super cheap Gameboy games of all kinds and I was lucky enough to recognize that that was the time to buy, but nowadays, prices are getting pretty rediculous. Luckily though, if you're not a collector and don't care about having authentic cartridges, buying repro carts is relatively cheap and reliable.
All of this is to say, if had to rank the "dire-ness" of Nintendo's consoles that need VC or NSO official preservation efforts, I'd rank it as follows:
1. VirutalBoy - It still baffles me that no effort was made to convert this tiny hard to find library into a 3DS virtual console library. With that ship sailed, I don't know if these games will ever be officially archived/accessible again.
2. Gamecube - These tiny discs exacerbate the problem of disc rot that is impending for all game discs.
3. N64 - Cartridges are better than discs, but N64's output options unmodified are pretty pitiful.
4. Gameboy/GBA - See above.