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Unless I'm mistaken, a majority of the development staff behind Breath of the Wild are pretty young and they REALLY injected a breath of fresh air and blood into the Zelda series.  Of course, it was Aonuma's idea to take Zelda back to its roots, but it was the younger developers who have experience or specialize in a modern-day styled, open world game that were able to make it possible.
Nintendo's the type of company that promotes from within, you start at the bottom of the ladder and you prove yourself enough times, you'll keep climbing it until you eventually reach the top. Miyamoto, Iwata (RIP), Kimishima, and even Aonuma, have gone through this. Aonuma has been the producer and head of the Zelda series since Phantom Hourglass, by the time Breath of the Wild comes out, that'll be 10 years now where he's dedicated his job and resources to just Zelda. I think it's time to give him a break, take a step back and let someone else step up and take the reins of the Zelda franchise, while Aonuma can go and make something that's his own with another team of his own that he can do. 
And it isn't just Aonuma and the Zelda team that shoul adopt this transition from older, experienced developers to new, up and coming ones, but Nintendo as a whole should be doing it as well.