So by appealing to "the masses", strictly means not "appealing towards you" in this place?
We can go over the many reasons over how you are objectively wrong that BotW is mediocre and the fallacy that it "hasn't done anything new". However, it's clear that BotW doesn't appeal to you. That's...
If it was just a game of the year show, perhaps I would agree. However.
BotW is one of the highest rated games of all time. By developers in the industry, within reviewers and with users.
It is a lengthy feature, however, you have one of the developers from Bioshock and Rez really explain...