Anyone else feel like Pokemon would work best with structure to it and have big explorative maps, dense with things to find and do in them?

I keep seeing people want a BotW-like world but I feel like that would just stretch out a lot of the content and make the world feel sparse and bigger than it needs to be.

I'm thinking in more terms of Odyssey exploration vs BotW exploration. I feel like the former is more satisfying by consuming less time to get to places because of it feeling more compact, while also encouraging you to think more outside the box and rewarding you for doing so.

Maybe a hybrid of their design philosophies would work best for pokemon? What do you think?