I think one of the biggest things with BotW is just like...it seemed to start and stop environmental storytelling at "here's some ruins and some decayed guardians, you do the maths"? So you start out and its a case of "oh god what happened?" but it never goes beyond that because the answer is ALWAYS "guardians happened."

So it feels so disappointing, because for all the little tidbits of info we might get from item descriptions or cool looking ruins they don't add up to anything. they dont tell us anything about ganon (serious botw wtf are you playing at with ganon), or zelda, or anything. it's so frustrating -_- I'm glad I'm not the only person who felt "eh" after it was done.