What bugs me is that there are so many of these small and easily avoidable flaws in the game, especially because a lot of them had been fixed with Twilight Princess, but are now back.

Also:

The sky is just one big disappointment, because it's so empty. And without being able to warp, it's even more annoying.

The final stretch of the game isn't good at all. You would think that the most challenging tasks should be ahead of you, but instead you are solving puzzles, play a stealth mission and collect stuff while swimming/diving. It's just so anti-climatic. It feels like a desperate attempt to stretch the length of the game towards the end of the development cycle. There just wasn't enough time to add another couple of dungeons, so these stupid tasks had to do the trick.

Skyward Sword doesn't use the sensor bar, that's the problem most people are having. After five years they assume that aiming is done that way (and rightly so), but it doesn't work that way in SS. In other games where you switch from a normal perspective into aim mode (like Resident Evil 4), an experienced player already has a good feeling where he needs to point at before the cursor even comes up on screen. So, for example, people point at the top left of the screen because that's where their target is. But...

Skyward Sword registers this position as the center, so in order to actually aim at the top left, the Wiimote needs to be moved in an awkward position which leads to the conclusion that the controls suck. And in this example, pointing to the center of the screen would result in Link aiming at the bottom right, the opposite of what you are trying to do.