@beardalaxy @pettanko I think the other problem is well, this is the Nintendo crowd, and they are stuck between thinking "Nintendo knows best" and shitting on trends everyone else does to be contrarian.
Outside Nintendo companies ran the realistic style into the ground, first being associated with the UE3 look and then in the PS4/5 era with "woke" shit, censorship, and soulless remakes that forego the art direction in favor of "does this look cool to the average idiot playing this game" as time went on.
Halo: CEA had this problem. I'm not even talking about Campaign Evolved here, but even that version had issues where the new graphics look flashy, brightened up, have questionable art choices, and removed even little things like baked in blood splatters on textures to tell you "something happened here".
So that crowd is conditioned to hate anything in a realistic style even if Zelda alternates every few years.