I do unironically appreciate the story continuity in the CD-i Zelda games, where Hyrule is actually a place with persistence and people that live in it that isn’t destroyed or ruined or flooded or otherwise reset almost every game with an exhausting reboot-but-not-quite redundancy to it all.

Edit: Yes, the games don’t take place in Hyrule except during introductory and epilogue cutscenes, but that actually adds to my point: adventures somewhere else, while Hyrule is still a place that doesn’t need to be reset or destroyed again.