No, like I said I hated sailing but I still liked WW.  Rarely does a game come along where I like every aspect of it, like with SSB I hate that it has no major single player mode and has fallen behind other fighting games like Mortal Kombat/Injustice in that regard, but I'm able to look past that cause the game is good.

I think there's no reason you can't be the judge of that now. You see the game. You've played Wind Waker. The differences and similaries are already at least somewhat clear. The differences are aesthetic and the similarities are mostly technical. You seem like a smart guy, so I see no reason why you couldn't presume based off of what you know.

Oh right right. Then maybe you just won't enjoy the horse sections. What did you like about WW?

I think I fought an octopus once so it made one sailing trip fun, but the dozens and dozens of other ones were still boring.  I didn't like those treasures cause you had to completely stop and reposition yourself perfectly to get it, it took way too long and was too tedious.  Even Nintendo pretty much admitted the sailing was way too much by adding a quicker speed in the re-release.

Boss fights, my favorite was Puppet Ganon and the last boss Ganon.  The story was good too, I felt real motivation to try to save link's little sister.  Pretty much almost everything except the sailing parts.  I don't really remember too much about the dungeons tho.

Its one of my favorite franchises, if I am going to hate it, I need good reason to, and I usually get that from playing it. Its hard for me to look at it and write it off. I even rented the remake of windwaker for wiiu to try to find some reason to like it and give it another chance, but i got bored and reluctant to even turn it on, so i sent it back to gamefly.

Not every zelda game is a winner, but the ones that do win big in my book.

I'm stopping right here. There is no evidence that you have to keep mashing A to speed Epona up. None whatsoever. It's entirely plausible, for instance, that they'll make it all feel fluid by working with something similar to the Hyrule Warriors dash mechanic, where the character starts dashing if you run (normally) for long enough... but if you hold dodge for just a few seconds either when starting to run or while running, you leap straight into a dash. Epona may take a bit of time to get up to speed normally, but pushing A a few times gets her moving faster more quickly... but once at her top speed, she stays at the top speed so long as you keep her running.

Heck, there's direct evidence that you won't need to keep actively speeding Epona up, in the form of the one great thing we know about Epona - she'll control herself to free you up to use weapons, etc, smoothly. Hard to do that while being forced to keep actively influencing her speed.

More generally, this "point" basically assumes a lot for no reason... or rather, it assumes a lot purely so that you/they (not clear whether this is your work or copy/pasted) can use it to constuct the argument being put forward. And indeed, at a skim of the rest, I got the same sense from the rest of it.

That's funny, I actually loved WindWaker but so far have no interest in Zelda U.

Oh but you will when they show them grass physics in direct footage and 1080p you'll be like I wanna tip toe through that right now!

More like when they actually show the meat of this game! So far all they've done is emphasis a big world, which is meaningless without stuff to do in it.