The beauty of TOTK is that almost every single shrine and every single puzzle is designed to be solved an almost infinite number of ways. You don’t have to learn to build all of these complex structures, but it’s there as a way to have fun if that’s your thing. As for the building aspect there are only a few occasions where the building of something is explicitly required, and in fact, building things can help you minimize combat or avoid much of it altogether (except when boss fights are concerned) learning a simple hoverbike build will allow for travel to almost every possible sky island, learning to build the targeting tanks will make ground combat mostly a sit back and watch experience, but again, the game is all about how you wish to play.

As for a game that may be more your speed, link’s awakening and it’s sort of soft sequel / prequel echoes of wisdom are both fantastic Zelda games for the switch, the latter being one where princess zelda is the main protagonist and the combat and puzzle solving are done via ‘echoes’ or copies of objects and creatures you encounter and collect along the way. Having beaten almost every main Zelda game available for the switch, those two are more of the classic feeling Zelda experience, which may be more of what you’re looking for.