let's take out everything that made the zelda games so loved (amazing music, unique dungeons, fun enemies and bosses, cool equipment) and replace it with a barren wasteland of an open world thats filled with the exact same mini-dungeons that get boring after like the fourth time you do them, and populated with the same 3 types of enemies. the exploring gets so boring so fast, because it's just the shrines, korok seeds and towers, that are all the same. even the rare unique puzzles just open up another shrine when you complete them
there's no incentive to exploring either, cause your only rewards are health/stamina and ocassionally a rare weapon/armor - but those dont matter, because weapons break after like 4 hits and theres no way to fix them, so your best bet is to just avoid combat altogether.
also, lets make it rain every 10 minutes to to make the best part of the game (the climbing) stop working
honest to god dont understand how people gave it 10/10s
Exactly. The entire point is creativity.
Limitations are the thing that gives way to human creativity. Only when we are severely limited do we start coming up with creative ways around the limitations given to us.
That is what BotW's mechanics seek to do at every turn, including the much maligned sliding while climbing during rain. Weather is an unescapable phenomenon and it places limitations on the player, these limitations are intended to make the player take a path they did not intend to take instead of the path they wanted to take. It forces the player to go an out of the way route that they otherwise may not have explored whatsoever.