And I can't stand when anyone suggests that Twilight Princess's shortcomings were a direct response to what Zelda fans wanted. No one asked for the same exact areas that we already visited in Ocarina of Time. All anyone said is that they didn't like the cartoon look, didn't feel it fit Zelda and wanted a style more like the one that Nintendo themselves presented at Spaceworld. NO ONE said "I want Ocarina of Time 1.5". That was Nintendo's choice alone. It is not a restriction of the graphics style or anything like that. And only a smug ASSHOLE points at it and says "this is what you wanted."
Did you ever visit sites like Gamefaqs back in 2003? A lot of the haters on these sites did want a Zelda like you described. Hell, back in 2003, I remember a lot of people saying they wished Nintendo would just remake Ocarina of Time instead of make Wind Waker 2
Well during 2003, Aonuma was working on Wind Waker 2 until the end of the year when the higher ups at Nintendo had him cancel the project in favor of making a realistic Zelda to appeal more to the North American fanbase. Believe it or not, Nintendo does have employees who lurk the larger internet message boards in order to find out what the fans like and don't like, and send that data to the higher ups.
Well if Aonuma wanted to find out what the America fans wanted, I'd image he'd look at what the people on the American boards were saying. And since back in 2003, these sites were filled with people wanting either Ocarina of Time 2 or a Ocarina Remake, it's not hard to see why Twilight Princess was made as close to Ocarina of Time as possible.
Just because you didn't want Twilight Princess to be a Ocarina sequel, doesn't mean there wasn't many more who did. And since the fanboys that wanted Ocarina of Time 2/Remake outnumbered everyone else, those were the fanboys who's voice ended up being heard the loudest in the end.