I'm going to continue to sound like a hater, but I really did not like BOTW. Nintendo took a model that worked well, and tossed it away for a bland, empty, open world. I believe before the game came out, Nintendo said it wanted to create a new template that all further games will work off of, like Ocarina of Time. But the thing is, aside from gameplay, OOT's model was based on A Link To The Past's. And, it ain't broken, but Nintendo still tried to fix it.
Also, BOTW had lasting negative effects on Nintendo's games, because everything has to be open world now. Even if it's to the game's detriment.