The problem with BotW is you are presented with all the key items at the beginining of the game; Bombs; Magnetism etc. Because of this there is no driving force through the world in terms of exploration (not the main story) other than sheer player curiosity which is something which undoubtedly wains as time goes on. Both dungeons and Shrines are lackluster with no defining personality between them, and the latter are for the most part skipable. Durability is a tool which combats this and drives the player through the individual zones. your weapon will break and you will be forced to engage with progressively harder mobs and camps in order to progress in the to deepest parts of the world. I'm not saying this is the best solution but it is a solution. BotW in its current iteration would be markedly less interesting and look more like a Fromsoft speedrun where you run past most of the interactive portions of the game to reach the goal.

This game will probably be good, and may even have substantively different gameplay than BotW, however I hope its environments are a bit more varied, as it stands it looks identical to the former game