The OP weapon would not be in the early part of the game. If durability wasn't a thing. I prefer that method, than breaking.

That's your opinion.

Well, one thread was created first and has the most posts due to the most dicussion

I'm not against this at all, just that it does disrupt conversations happening in that thread. But this thread will work just as well since nobody minds :p

The reason is BotW got pretty good critic reviews and that doesn't sit well with some people so they look for excuses to pick on the game.

I'm honestly a bit surprised this is such a game-breaker for a few people here. I'm probably clocked 30 hours so far, and it seems like I have a surplus of powerful weapons at any given time. Whenever I see a weapon I like, I can take a picture of it, and use my Shiekah Sensor to find it again while exploring, but that honestly hasn't been an issue yet.

I've only played a few other open-world RPGs to completion (I have ADD, gomen gomen), but I vastly prefer the system here to Skyrim, where I was constantly over-encumbered, and was forced to drop weapons after every dragon fight in order to store the bones. I suppose this comes down to what aspects of collection bother you, but Ive found the weapon cycling keeps things fresh overall, and item management is as simple as 'throw weapon, press d-pad, equip new weapon'.

I suppose if it's a such a problem though, it would be nice to include an unlimted durability mode, as long as it's optional. Or an in-game location that lets you repurchase old weapons.

I mostly agree.  It was a hassle at low levels and I hope they do something different with it in the future.  There were ways around it, though, so that at higher levels, it wasn't much of a factor.  I had like a thousand filled Soul Gems by the time I stopped playing and the Black Star, an infinite use Black Soul Gem, made recharging simple.  Still, I would have liked more freedom within the system.  EVERY enchanted weapon I made had the unique Fiery Soul Trap as one of the enchants and I always set the strength really low so I wouldn't have to keep recharging all the time.  

I really dislike going into menus constantly to micro-manage.  It's immersion breaking.

I can care less what BOTW got. My complaints are my complaints. I bitched how awful Fi was, for Skyward Sword. I'll complain about a system, I think, went too far. In annoying the player.

I said it somewhere else, but I kinda want to say it again here. I need to put a disclaimer first: I haven't really played Breath of the Wild, so my opinion doesn't go further from what I've seen in review videos or what I can infer from the thing.

The biggest "issue" that could happen from how the weapon durability thing works in Breath of the Wild is the fact that weapons lose identity. You don't grab weapons out of their stats or usefulness; you grab weapons for a quantity reason, to have a huge arsenal and keep swapping around when things start breaking over and over and over within the same (or close) combats. Find a new, unique weapon? Either keep it as some sort of trophy you won't ever use it because it'll break down in 30 hits or have it as yet another part of the arsenal you're going to use in the same place. The former makes you deny the weapon its usefulness out of fear of breaking, the later just makes it part of that quantity-based combat, and thus, doesn't matter how cool the weapon because you'll use it for/as replacement of a weapon that already broke.

Part of what the developers wanted is the freedom to beat the final boss whenever you wanted to.  You can even beat the game within the first 30 minutes.  If you didn't have the ability to gain op weapons early, then you wouldn't be able to take down the final boss.

In Zelda, they could create an easy mode with 10x longer durability and ready to eat food as loot for casual players.

And the Soulsbourne series, where durability lasts much longer, would really profit from an easy mode that is more like Zelda as well. In my opinion, the save and pause restrictions are really bad game design and the game would benefit greatly from more accessible game play. Not too easy, just like Zelda in its current form.

I cannot talk about Witcher 3, I have to force myself to finish Witcher 2 first.

I don't mind them but I think they make the most sense in games with survival elements where resource managing is a key element. I'm not a fan of the kind of implementation where you don't actually have to worry about losing your gear because they last long and it's easy to repair them. Why have a durability system when it adds nothing to the game but a break from your quest to make your sword great again?

Good use of a durability system is letting the player find really good gear early on and thus provide the option to take on a limited amount of enemies or quests that's above the player's current level, without breaking the overall game balance.