It's hard going back to any other game after TotK :/
The down side of using the same map is that I didn't feel the draw to explore the mountains, rivers, lakes and coast again. Luckily the Depths provided the feeling of discovery from exploration. I still covered a lot of ground, according to the game 71% of the map. (Surface Map spoiler, although it's the same map as BotW...)
It's that the map was tailor made for BotW, its traversal system and quests. TotK does a good job to add new quests, yet you still see all the quest 'furniture' from BotW while TotK quests aren't all that much integrated in the landscape. Plus you can so easily skip everything thanks to the sky towers launching you up very high (I didn't use them, nor fast travel) or simply fly over, that barricades make little sense.
I restricted myself to travel by horse and on foot for maximum immersion. Much better than hover biking or dropping down from the Sky.
