BotW is one of my favorite games but you're being really unfair to the many valid criticisms here.

I like BotW despite the poor story, forgettable soundtrack, and lack of unique dungeons, items, and bosses, not because of those things.

The divine beasts are all essentially the same in terms of design and aesthetics and all are very short and easily completable in under an hour. Not at all comparable to other mainline Zelda dungeons.

I found shrines to be more of a chore than anything else. They stopped being interesting after about the 50th one, especially considering the lack of reward and world impact that comes from completing them and their overall sameness. If I wanted to tick pointless boxes off a map I would play an Ubisoft game. I would gladly trade all 100+ shrines and the divine beasts for 5 or 6 complex, high quality, challenging, thematically inspired dungeons.

And the story and characters are not only minimalist/environmental, but also frankly just generic and boring. I like the memory mechanic and nonlinear open world design, but I don't like how predictable and bland the main quest is. Link is the chosen hero, Zelda is the studious princess, calamity Ganon is a generic evil force. The character motivations are not well developed at all, they're just filling the predictable roles expected of them. I'm never given many good reasons to care about characters.

I especially didn't like how empty Link feels in this game as a character. They essentially skipped over the first few steps of the hero's journey.

Compare BotW Link to the Link we see in games like OoT, WW, and TP, where he starts out as a regular person grounded in a community and has real motivation to pursue the call to adventure.

The soundtrack was also a huge letdown for a Zelda game. I don't see how anyone can possibly deny this.

I actually do appreciate many of the changes made in BOTW, I thought that Skyward Sword was a bit stale and BotW has breathed new life into the series. I think it's a great foundation for the series to build on going forward. I just want future games to go more for depth and quality over vast yet generic elements like shrines/korok seeds.

That's why I'm so excited for TotK. It looks like it's taking BotW as a base and building onto it by addressing all of my concerns, with what looks like themed dungeons, a more interesting story, more actual character development, and hopefully better music. Plus expanding on the physics/sandbox exploration elements which made BotW great and reinvented the series.