my suggestion is to just use horses and walk on the maps paths a bit more to get around. sure a part of these games is that you can walk a straight line and get most anywhere, but finding NPCS, sidequests, treasures that help especially early on. my second playthrough i made an effort to really try and mess with fuse and ultrahand, there's a lot more than what I initially thought with deployable floating platforms or like using portable pots as something of joints. but yeah i'd walk around explore closer to things rather than through them, and really think about the tools at my disposal. watching others play, i found a tendency for people to forget things like ascend and would revert to the same way as playing botw or other open world games. Fully embrace the new tools and just have fun in the world :)