Yeah, that's true. I'm not a fan of cheap tricks like the scripted nonsense in F.E.A.R or giving the opposition an edge or giving you a handicap out of nowhere (FIFA does this a lot on higher difficulties). The main problem with difficulty settings is that pretty much the only changes from Easy to Very Hard in most games is simply how much damage you can take and deal, the dynamic and mechanics remain the same and the AI is usually still piss poor (this is what makes Very Hard on Horizon too easy, along with a completely overpowered stealth mechanic).

It's hard, ironically, to make games hard. In a proper way, anyway.

yeah but not in that way lol I wanna know what I need to solve.

Open worlds should also be a lot more flexible in how to tackle quests. Breath of the wild has a lot of freedom yet some quests are still very fixated on the A->B->C->D structure. For example as soon as I got the Sheika slate upgraded in Hateno I went visiting some of the pictured locations I recognized for the memories. Doesn't work, Impa has to tell you first to go do that before anything happens. Same with quests that require the camera. The npcs simply ignore you until you first unlock it, then they somehow sense you have it and the exclamation mark appears. I wonder what I have missed while exploring for 80 hours without doing the start quests first.

Reading a map is not as exciting as reading visual landmarks on the overworld, or exploring places that you hear in conversations, it is simply way more inmersive this way.

There are some sidequest in BOTW that give you an aproximate spot on the map, but you still need to wander around a bit. The sidequests in BOTW are great and it would be fun to watch it in other games.

I real life, I don't go hunting Trolls, Lynels, Demons and Goblins.  Why would I do different in a game?

You can find your way just fine in BOTW without the game holding your hand as if you were a little baby. You just need to ask around for information, or pay attention to what the person giving you a task will tell you.  

How do you describe it when a game holds your hand the whole way?

And you can appreciate or not whatever you want. I simply think you're making a big deal out of nothing, considering that BOTW does give you enough information to find your way if you take the time to ask or look around.

You also said that no map marker = poor game design. You don't say that it is a "different thing" that isn't for you, you say it is poor game design and that you don't like when a game doesn't hold your hand all the way through. How did you expect people would react?

A lot of it has to do with mainstream gamers forcing the simplification of many game series, so there is a grudge against mainstream gamers. Just look at the Morrowind vs. Skyrim debate. Many people thought Skyrim's systems were oversimplified in way of " accessibility." So basically it is because there are tradeoffs made, and for some it makes games worse in the long haul. When a game actually respects the player and doesn't handhold them as they experience it, they (we) get defensive. It is as if a From Software made Dark Souls games easier because they are too hard for the CoD generation.

So basically, you are here commenting negatively about what BOTW does, without even actually having played the game to know how it does it...

And nobody said every games should be like that. But BOTW is built around this aspect of its gameplay. Not every games will be built around this concept, where no matter where you go, you will find something interesting that pushes you to keep going forward and constantly discover new stuff. 

If you had played BOTW, you would understand what people are talking about. But instead, you came in here and downplayed the game without knowing how the game achieves this and how it feels for the player.