oh this is *fascinating*. I can really see it feeling very handholdy by virtue of how you ended up playing. I *still* haven't done the "follow the statues to the Gerudo Mine" because I was like... nah? I'll get there eventually, I guess, but chasing down Kohga is very low priority. So I haven't gotten *any* of that side-adventure-compass, and went Rito > Zora > Gerudo > Goron, pretty much entirely of my own accord! The promptings without the Yiga Depths quest are subtler -- mostly NPC stable chatter -- and I had intended to go Gerudo second (bc I/Link wanted to check and see if Ganondorf had recruited them) but got sidetracked. A lot.

Also RIP @ your schema stone luck. I've only picked up a couple, and they haven't taken the wind out of my sails (lol). Favourites upgrades would be *nice* tho.