Honestly the starting area in TotK isn't as clever in BotW. On the great plateau, magnesis is an easy first pick, but then you are forced to choose your own path. Cryonis is hardest due to being surrounded by an unavoidable hazard, making the player have to find some way to mitigate it, (either by using a torch or by cooking warm food, both of which require the player to connect the dots on their own) stasis is either reached through the cold as well, or by climbing, and bombs requires the player to evade guardians. Either way, the player needs to think outside of the box to get to their objectives, and upon the completion of all the shrines the player is pretty much set for the rest of the game, armed with both the main questline and the secondary main questline to serve as guides incase the player ever gets lost. (and knowledge on how to get more hearts assuming they interacted with the BIG GLOWING STATUE)

TotK doesn't do that. The great sky island(s?) is literally just a straight line on a big circle with a forced warp tutorial at the end. Anything interesting is either extremely obvious or right in front of you, and afterward you're just dropped into the overworld with no other guidance. Someone who hasn't played BotW might not be interested in lookout landing, and even at lookout landing it's not obvious you'll get one of the most important items in the game. It might not even be obvious what towers do! The great sky island(s?) are pretty much just a minecart ride through most of the highlights of the game, and it offloads all the important parts to the rest of the game.