After finishing TOTK I realized most if not all of the excessive criticism around it was undeserved hate

The game does everything BOTW does and more, it is essentially BOTW again but with a much larger and impressive world, new mechanics that enhance the gameplay, and a fixed weapons breaking system thanks to Fuse. After finishing it, I thought that regardless of having similar problems with it's story to BOTW, the story in this game was more involved, and richer than BOTW.

The side quests are better, enemy variety has vastly increased, the bosses are better,the stables are better, items have much more of a purpose, there's an actual hub, the building mechanics are actually fun.

I will never understand the undeserved hate this game has garnered around the internet or the absolute denial that it is anything but an improvement upon it's predecessor.

Edit: and before anyone asks I spent over 140 hours on the game, completed over 109 shrines, played multiple side adventures and got the Master Sword and all memories.