re: A graph has been made comparing the size of BotW's world to Skyrim/other Zeldas

That's all well and good, but what portion of that has interesting things to do and explore? I found much of the open world in previous Zelda games to be a giant time waster as your only reason to enter it was to get to a new part of the map. I spent most of the time running past enemies, as there was really no benefit to stopping and fighting them.