The issue with BotW is it has no real active story. Everything interesting happened in the past. Nothing Link does in the present feels like it impacts him as a character or really changes the world. Everything remains disconnected and inconsequential.
OoT has an active story. You start out with Link as the child without a fairy who the Deku tree calls upon to help him. Learn about Ganondorf and Link being a Hylian. You meet Zelda and formulate a plan to stop Ganondorf. There's a twist and it turns out you helped Ganondorf. Suddenly it's 7 years later and the world is destroyed. You have to learn the fate of the world you explored in the past and help the various people like Malon and Ruto. Zelda is missing and Sheik helps you, culminating in a great twist. And finally through building your power you are able to face Ganon and save the world. And on top of that is backstory that happened before the game, like the history of Ganon and the Gerudo, the story of the Goddesses.
BotW's story in the present is basically just Link wakes up and has to stop Ganon and save Zelda. There's no growth, no ups and downs, no twists. Everything besides defeating Ganon is optional and inconsequential, taking the wind out of even doing it. The various peoples are more inconvenienced than imperiled by the Sacred Beasts, whereas in OoT you had the Gorons being imprisoned and fed to their ancient enemy Volvagia, the Zoras being frozen in ice, the Gerudo struggling with Ganondorf's rule.
Hopefully this sequel is more story and dungeon focused. The feeling I get is that BotW was basically a prologue/base. They wanted to do more, but making the world took all their effort, so they released the world with a very basic story and shrines. Now that the world is there as a base, they can more quickly make changes to it to add dungeons and focus on a story.
Link and Zelda go underground to search for the source of Calamity Ganon and find Ganondorf's mummy. They accidentally revive him and he lifts areas around Hyrule into the sky, revealing ancient dungeons below. Link gets a new magic arm that can turn into classic Zelda items and Zelda uses the Sheikah Slate and they go around to the dungeons to get the power they need to seal Ganondorf once more.