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>but they should at least send him a Nintendo Switch as an appreciation

It's a (most likely) transitive npm dependency of about 50 lines of code. Not saying it doesn't do something useful -- quite sure it does, with 45M weekly installs, but it would be pretty ridiculous to send Switches for every dependency..

So that's saved them 5 developer-days of work? They can afford to send a Switch. It would be a nice gesture.

But then does everyone get something? Will it be perceived as a slight if some other contributor doesn't receive something? There would undoubtedly be a response from some that a switch alone is inadequate.

I think nintendo is probably doing the most riskless thing but abiding by the terms.

But that would create a permanent premise when using open source code.

If the code contributions are huge (complete framework or big library) then maybe.