Is New Super Mario Bros U Still Worth Playing?

With Super Mario Bros Wonder simply brimming with creativity and highly detailed animations, it's left people asking a lot of questions about the New Super Mario Bros games.
Especially New Super Mario Bros U, the previous 2D Mario platformer for the Wii U that was eventually ported to Switch as New Super Mario Bros U Deluxe.
The main question being, is U even worth playing at this point? Especially if Wonder just blows it out of the water, and Nintendo is still charging basically the same price for either product?
Well... it might seem easy to say initially.
Of course Wonder looks and plays simply brilliantly. Its the “newer” product and has a lot to show for itself in the marketplace of 2D platformers.
But what does, alternatively, U offer?
Well considering it was originally released in 2013, and in the New Super Mario Bros franchise, it may at first seem bland and uninspired when compared to a game like Wonder.
You can just really tell that the games are made with different standards when compared to each other.
That being said, I personally still believe that U has a lot going for it.
As other critics have already pointed out, they're both still Mario games, and do many similar things.
The core 2D Mario game design philosophy that really took off with Super Mario Bros 3 and Super Mario World remains strong and present regardless of which game you pick.
You play as Mario, or other characters, and adventure through levels, collecting special coins and eventually getting to a flagpole at the end where in which the next level is made available to play.
New Super Mario Bros U has it's own bells and whistles of continuing the tried and true Mario formula, even if it doesn't look like that compared to Wonder.
Even going beyond the New Super Mario Bros franchise additions, U has many unique inclusions that we have so far only seen in it's release.