Haha that would be the logical thought process, but it's hilarious how many people focus so intently on visuals despite not doing what it takes to actually get the best visuals.
Zelda looks INCREDIBLE.
Because you can care about the quality of something without having to have the absolute best, most expensive version. I care a lot about graphics, but that doesn't mean I need to have a high-end PC. I can still be plenty disappointed and plenty impressed by games. Unfortunately, the Switch has a power level that doesn't allow Zelda BOTW to be impressive to me anymore (except from a handheld game standpoint).
I don't see why some people are offended by the mere suggestion that the game has less than stellar graphics. Obviously it is probably the close to the best it could be on Switch, but it is hard to argue that the game would be any worse if it were made with modern hardware. I'm not even disappointed by the visuals (maybe TV mode frame rate is a little disappointing), but I can recognize that the game could look much better. Clearly it is not possible given Nintendo's choice of hardware, so I'm not really bothered by it. Acknowledging what could have been possible isn't a crime.
This is what frustrates me. I mean, pretty much everybody would like it if the game looks better. Why else do so many Nintendo fans talk about beautiful the game is? Visuals must be important to them. It looks a lot better than, say, Twilight Princess. So if it even looked a theoretical generation ahead of what we got (which we be possible on PS4-PS4 Pro level hardware and certainly not out of the realm of possibility), that could only be a good thing to all of these people gushing about the visuals, right? So why defend them when there are clear and fairly drastic shortcomings in several areas?
Alas, since Nintendo decided to make it a handheld, we got the best or around the best we could have gotten, so it is what it is. I'm pretty happy with the visual output overall. Disappointed from a console standpoint, happy with it from a handheld standpoint.