Shallow water race innit! They always live around water in open air like! They stand around and stuff! You never find a zora sitting on the seabed. Then there was just islands, so they moved near those. Then they just sorta became land dwellers. It's easily so obvious, duh.
YES.
TP was big, but shallow. It was stretched thin with not enough asidey stuff, not enough good item use. It had BRILLIANT items, but they were used for about 10 minutes after you finished a dungeon, then like...never again. The home town and stuff was shallow, not enough good/fun/entertaining subgames imo.
Just not enough charm, dammit!