People do have standards, and "solid 30 fps with drops sometimes" is and has been the baseline of those standards for decades now for people who play on consoles.Thank you. I don't get why anyone would defend companies releasing badly performing games. It's like people don't have any standards for the things they spend their money on.
Like you say you're a big Zelda fan, Ocarina of Time runs a lot worse than BoTW. And it came out in 1998!