Of the games I’ve played, I’d pick Majora’s Mask. The reduced size and linearity combines well with the time mechanic and forced repetition. I don’t agree that the BotW/TotK map was too large, though. The “emptiness” was kind of the point of those games. The space allows you to appreciate the little things like grass swaying in the wind or the distant sounds of animals.
Is anyone actually invested enough in Avatar to care about “twists” in the films? My feeling has always been that it’s a series people watch purely because of the visuals. The first one was a big event for this reason, and the second was a big event because it was the follow up to the first one and promised 13 years worth of improved visuals. No one really cared about the story, or the characters, or the world building to my knowledge - certainly not to the exrent that they do for other science fiction franchises like Star Wars or Alien (when Ripley existed).
You could’ve just stopped there, to be honest. The entertainment industry has always been guilty of manufacturing outrage for interaction. My unsolicited advice for everyone is to just get back to enjoying your hobbies, whether they be film, video games, music or anything else, and stop caring about the associated noise online. There is a fake controversy about everything these days and so many people seem to get emotionally manipulated into actually thinking any of it is real or relevant and end up spending more of their time absorbed in the fake drama than they do actually enjoying the original hobby.