You don't, but I myself would have liked an indicator that I beat it with it always on (more of a pet peave than an actual negative).

My apologies if you don't know what zero punctuation is, I assumed pretty much everyone does, my mistake. In my defence the last part of the link says "8347-The-Legend-of-Zelda-The-Windwaker-HD" so I did think there was enough information in the link to indicate that what is at the link was relevant to the thread. 

And by doing so you have destroyed any satisfaction you would have had in beating it in Hero Mode. If you can switch back to normal there may as well have never been a hero mode to begin with.

Well I knew it was about Zelda, I just doubted the video was strictly about new things added, which is what I was after :)

And it isn't strictly about new things added, so you may have been disappointed. It's a review video, which identifies some of the key differences in the opinion of the reviewer, but it also talks about a whole lot of other aspects of the game, both good and bad and that are the same on both version.

What is?
Look there is an OPTION noone is forced to use.  So what is the problem?  Its like saying the cheater tanooki suit in Mario is stupid. Its not. Its for people who want to use it. So it has a point.

If I cant control myself and have to constantly use a feature I actually dont like   its not the games fault. If you are forced to use something on the other hand (like I hate the "IT TOOK YOU THAT MANY MINUTES TO COMPLETE THAT LEVEL HERE YOU HAVE THAT WORTHLESS DIGITAL GOLD MEDAL" stuff in Bayonetta etc) I would agree  It would be annoying.

But a ton of games lets you change the difficulty within the game. The only pointless thing about that WWHD feature is that you have to go back to the main menu to activate it instead of being able to do it while playing the game.

Oh yeah and you just have to prove something to yourself dont limit your existence to proving yourself to others. If you like tell them you beat it on hero mode if they dont believe you  its their fault.

What I like about the Golden Tanooki Suit is that the game shows if you used it or not (Sparkle vs. No Sparkle Profile Stars).

Hero Mode lacks it, but again its more of a pet pevee than an actual negative.

I never had the desire to turn it off (no matter how rage inducing Puppet Ganon was on 3 Heart Hero Mode).

Once again that's not the point. It's the personal satisfaction that comes with the territory in playing games.

If I pick hard mode then why should a game allow me to go back to normal mode mid-way? Seems redundant.

If I wanted to play normal mode I would simply pick normal mode, it's that simple. If they allow a hard mode and give me the ability to choose normal at any point in the game it defeats the entire purpose of selecting hard mode to begin with. Regardless of whether or not I temporarily select normal mode to get through a tough spot.

I really don't see the argument here.

lol started topic to complain about one thing, found out it wasn't true, cherry picked something else to complain about instead.

I didn't like it on the Gamecube. I did like it on Wii U. The difference is that big.