as do i, but Zelda titles are the only 30+ hour games that seem able to hold my attention. loved Fallout 3, but couldn't play it for the 40 or 50 hours i played Wind Waker, Twilight Princess and Skywards Sword. you can't even pin it down to nostalgia because Wind Waker was the first Zelda game i played.
i think everyone loves the dungeons, and the reaction to the rest of it is mixed, but that doesn't preclude some of us from enjoying 'the rest of it' as much.
sure, that one bit felt a tad like padding (see what i did there?) but i thought there was a good variety of content between dungeons this time, and the tadtone section look me all of ten minutes. sure, it sticks out as 'padding' but we're talking ten minutes of a game i spent more than fourty hours playing.
not sure if it's my game of the year, but it's certainly a game i'm considering for it.