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They've been flagging physical carts showing up in multiple places at the same time since the very moment the first Switch flashcart appeared (so likely before we ever had our hands on any). Places discussing the flashcart had been talking about increased detection and bans for a year or so.
It was even done on the 3DS before that. The 3DS had a whole tiny niche ecosystem of people selling "private headers", dumping only the unique per cartridge info and selling it with the promise that they'd only sell any given header to one person. That too had a few instances of normal people complaining about bans with pre-owned games.
Right. I think the confusion stems from the linked article framing this as someone getting banned for using a second hand Switch 1 game on a Switch 2.
What actually seems to have happened is someone bought a dumped cart, got their account banned when it was flagged for not being unique and then had a relatively easy time of getting customer support to unban them when he called to explain he actually did own the physical cart.
From that perspective it all makes some sense, it's just not what Metro decided to report, I'm assuming due to being swept into reports of resold bricked Switch 2s.