Since we're talking MM, let's also talk about how that game had significantly more narrative weight and impact despite having a world significantly smaller than BotW.
MM is where you literally see the impact of your actions and of current events on the daily lives of nearly every NPC you interact with. BotW is where some asshole ghost tells you YOU MUST SAVE ZELDA AND HYRULE but nearly every asshole NPC you encounter is just going through another normal day.
It's the stupidity of trying to sell you danger in a game where they later encourage you to dick around for 200 hours, compared to a game where they sell you danger and give you a strict time limit and a demonic moon that gets closer and closer.