I am almost done with Echoes of Wisdom and thought the map was the perfect size for the game. I always felt like Breath of the Wild’s map was too large for what was offered. Tears of the Kingdom kind of made that worse by doubling the map underneath and having it mostly be empty.
I liked A Link Between Worlds. It’s got the double the map size because of Lorule, but it’s not overwhelmingly large like BotW or TotK, so travelling from one place to another - especially with fast travelling - felt really fine. The secrets that are only accessible via travelling to Lorule were also cool.
I remember it feeling a game where I wanted to find all the secrets vs it feeling like a chore in some. I really need to replay it.