TOTK is the only open world game with a building system where the building element is used in real gameplay and not just “hey, you can build a house that serves literally no function.” That one thing alone puts it above so many other large open world games because even if you’re doing the same kinda stuff over and over, you do have a lot of ways of solving everything and it’s not just repeating the exact same actions again and again unless you want it to be.