People will genuinely gaslight you into believing every zelda game wanted to be botw and just couldn’t and that all of their well-designed dungeons and linear gameplay were just happy accidents
Things "aging poorly" isn't a thing. If something was great at release then it remains exactly as great no matter how much time passes. You've have to cut all these anti art concepts out of your head.
Some people are too young to understand but back in the day Nintendo had a streak of weird in them that can be felt in OoT and MM but not in the newer games. That part of them began dying during the Wii and it was dead and buried by the time Switch released.