I never played it on the Wii, though I could see myself eventually picking it up a few years down the line when it's happens to go on sale. It looks like a fun game. Considering it's just an HD port of a Wii game, granted with plenty of work going into mapping motion controls to button/stick controls and a few small QoL changes, I'd say my instinct is to say it should probably be $50 and drop to $40 within a year. But this is Nintendo so it'll be $60 forever or until Nintendo does the Nintendo Selects discounted games late in the Switch's life.

Agreed. But DK tropical Freeze is an excellent platformer, NSBU is an okish platformer. Skyward Sword it´s a polemical version of 3d Zelda. 

I don't like the game. Wouldn't pay more than 15 USD on it

If you have to really ponder that question to yourself for any game, the answer is probably (but not always) no.

I know that the OP's thread title is a rhetorical question, but I'm just speaking generally.

I know this is a joke, but Aonuma is producer of Skyward Sword and BotW and Fujibayashi is director of both.

Yes

for Fujibayashi it is. But since Aonuma is the director of the Zelda series, the series goes to more puzzles and less exploration/skilled action. The culmination of this is SS. After SS, Fujibayashi and other staff of Zelda Series, not Aonuma, came with an idea back to the roots of the series. The barebones project of Botw is a The Legend of Zelda classic with overworld effects and alterations.  

They make the prototype and after this approach Aonuma. Aonuma's influence in BotW is minimal, shrines and divine beasts. The exploration/systemic game is not Aonuma´s idea.

No, as a perverted wise man once said:

"$40 at best. The textures looks like upscaled dolphin and there's some QoL changes. The game itself might be fun enough but the port is certainly not worth the asking price. They did a pretty lazy job imo."

If they had included 2 - 4 other Zelda games (Windwaker HD, Twilight Princess HD, Ocarina of Time HD, Majora's Mask HD), I would have paid $60 - $70 for that "Zelda 3D All-Stars" collection.

Skyward Sword HD without additions shouldn't cost more than $30.

Agreed with all this. NSMBU at least also had the Luigi version of the game as well. It most reasonably should have been $60. Skyward Sword should have at most been $50 given that it's a Wii game but they did put a bunch of work into it to change all the controls and add a few QoL changes. DK should have been $40 at most. Or really, Nintendo should have a policy that HD ports of Wii games or Wii U games should be $50 at launch because people will buy at launch, and then drop to $40 a few months later once sales slow down. It makes no sense that ports/remasters/remakes that the market clearly says should be $30-$40 Nintendo just keeps at $60 forever despite sales dying off soon after release. Like, millions of more people would buy these games, and Nintendo would make more money, a win-win, if they would drop these old ported games to reasonable prices once their sales die off.