That's a fair assessment. I also found BOTW pretty sub-par. But TOTK makes BOTW look like an alpha build of a tech demo. It's the game I expected BOTW to be. I only put like 20 hours into BOTW before I just went and defeated ganon to finish the game; I am still playing TOTK and I got it a week or so after launch.
BTW: Link to the Past was my favorite Zelda game until TOTK.
Cool, I'll have to check it out sometime then. I still have a pretty big backlog of Zelda games (completely missed the DS, GameCube, and Wii/Wii U generations).
Yeah it was very fun, I just missed the shader setup I had on the Wii u emulator for botw. And also, since I already knew the world it didn't feel as "fresh" explorations wise except underground and the sky island. But other than that, good 7/10, would recommend others but not replay.