(And one more: I really disliked how the sidequests portrayed Zelda as a shining beacon of virtue who solved everyone's problems and could Do No Wrong. Botw!Zelda's flaws were what made her so compelling.

And why is *Zelda* the one coming up with recipes when *Link* is the one who loves cooking?)

Exactly, and explaining it away as 'they knew their mission was complete' when a) they stuck around for 10k years before, and b) *Demon King Ganon was right there under the castle* really rubbed me the wrong way.

Totk being a direct sequel retroactively made the story of botw feel pointless. If they really wanted the same Hyrule, setting it a couple centuries down the line would have worked much better.

Yeah, I'm not sure why we're acting like this is new information

Didn't we already know that from Creating a Champion?