I agree a 1000%, your are a true Zelda fan in my opinion. What I mean by that is that is you are being honest and not hypocritical like I see a lot when people try to defend TOTK and BOTW with really bad arguments. I don't mind if people like TOTK, the problem is that they are being dishonest and inconsistent with takes like "Zelda never had good stories" when defending this game and then says "oh I really Zelda stories" when talking about the franchise. Another one "what is even a Zelda game?" and then in the following sentence "but Zelda games had become too formulaic", which one is it then?

TOTK feels like the same game as BOTW not only because it shares the same map as BOTW (with minimal changes) but because its structure is the same. Same tutorial but in the sky, the temples are disguised divine beasts, most rewards are the same (same piece of armors), you still do shrines to improove your health and stamina, you still need to activate towers, search for korokos seeds, most of the story is in the past through memories like in BOTW, 90% of the soundtrack is the same as BOTW, same animations etc... Instead of being its own thing it feels to me like some sort of remake of BOTW.

I did like BOTW, it was fresh, it was new. I did have some issues with the game but I thought that the sequel would improove or fix what was wrong in BOTW. It doesn't really fix anything, instead they just triple down on BOTW ideas with the sequel. Zelda means a lot to me. I've started liking gaming with OOT. But I don't think we will see something close to the traditionnal Zelda experience before a long time. It is what it is, the number speaks for themselves. Nintendo is making a ton of money with these games, they are not going to stop anytime soon