I believe so. Yeah there’s a reasonable amount of accuracy in that comment and I guess it’s partly why it never took off the way the first one did.
We have two Wii and two Wii U here, both are modded, my son does all that. My daughter has a third, our old original, that’s modded as well.
Some things Nintendo do and did so well that the others struggle with. The kind of fun you’re having with the balance bard and Wii Fit echoes that. After all this time they still work brilliantly.