I'm glad I found this thread. I'm a Nintendo fan (mainly a Zelda fan) but I've started to get royally sick of this community.
I think this stems primarily from when the Breath of the Wild game came out, there was endless bitching about how this game 'wasn't Zelda' and didn't have that Zelda 'feel,' and wasn't linear (a.k.a it wasn't Ocarina.) Yet it ended up being the most top selling Zelda game of all time and helped sell a lot of Switches, because a lot of people who weren't previously fans of Zelda seemed to like it. It brought in a lot of new people into the fandom, people who previously weren't all that into Zelda or had left the fandom long ago.
What was the kicker was that prior to this game coming out, there was regularly talk on forums about how the fandom was declining and that people just weren't fans of it like they used to be, as many of the older fans had left the fandom and moved onto more darker medieval-esc titles like Dark Souls because Nintendo refused to grow with it's older gamers.
This made me realize that there is apparently a sizable subset of fans in Zelda who really never have moved on from the Game Cube era of Zelda, and despite the much needed influx of new fans, only want Zelda games that are endless ports/remakes/clones of Ocarina of Time or sequels that star or guest star the Hero of Time, despite Nintendo having done that since Majora's Mask, even though it had been slowly killing the fandom. They seem to have a bad case of the nostalgia feels and 'muh childhood' and will gush about that game being the best of all time and so innovative, yet cannot seem to accept that some people might not like it as much nowadays and might want Zelda to continue to be innovative and different instead of always being stuck in 1998.
I might get Puzzle Pieces, but damn Zelda should not remain stuck in the past just to please these people.