I was feeling it until about half way through and then it fell off for me really hard. I think the building concept was cool as hell but felt like it wasn't incorporated into the game. I feel if it had to be a Nintendo franchise maybe something like Pilot Wings could have gotten a boost with that idea, PW has usually doubled as a tech demo anyway. Have an open world with stuff you can build with, maybe some light combat for raiding materials or whatever and then make the rest of the game based around those vehicles. Have it be about racing the vehicles you make. You could even fo a multi player that's like City Whatever from Kirby Air Ride where all the players get dropped into a space and have a certain amount of time to get a vehicle together before a series of races with that vehicle.

For totk once I built a good hover bike I never had to be resourceful again. I didn't try a second play where I didn't get the paraglider or auto build and that did make the game better. Just not being able to paraglide makes it so you need to build stuff and no auto build means you have to use what's around you. There were a fee things I couldn't so but I manages to do the main quest and most side quests with it