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TBF, the Smash Bros community brought their all-but-destruction on themselves. The rest is pretty valid, though.
Nah Nintendo has hated Melee in particular basically since Brawl released as it continues to compete with new releases. More recently a community made online + rollback mod has drawn Nintendos usual emulation ire.
Nintendo has been against them before any real self destruction had started from the community though. In 2013 the melee community raised $95k for breast cancer research, which led to melee being picked up for evo 2013. Nintendo then tried to shut down the live stream of the tournament, and then shutdown the whole melee event for reasons known only to Nintendo.
If we're going to destroy entire competitive scenes over a handful of bad actors, there would be no competitive games ever.