I didn't even care about the degradation, other than it's blatantly unbalanced and ultimately pointless. What I hated is that there's nothing in the game even worth breaking your weapons on. All the enemies/bosses are boring as fuck and none of Link's attacks are fun, if that makes sense? The weapon types all have really dull movesets, bullet time was a stupid addition, and the Sage Powers were gayer than Witcher Signs.
Just a really goddamn boring and motivationless experience, even storywise. I legitimately could not give less fucks about Zelda or Hyrule as a whole, they're so emotionally destitute.