Too bad the koroks were nintendo's idea, and there was no "F*ck, GO BACK!" button for us gamers to press, the koroks were a mistake, just like the windwaker kinda games were.
I didn't hear people complaining about looking for graffities on GTA San Andreas. But they were only a hundred, not a thousand.
Collectable items were a common method to make players explore a level on platform games. If they want to earn a golden turd for the effort I say go for it.
Anyways, in retrospective, the Kokiris turning into the Koroks was something that needed to be done; knowing the internet the way it is now, having a race of people who all look like children for eternity but are fully adult was simply asking for trouble.
And of course there's gotta be that one guy who doesn't want kids in his video game because someone might like them too much, and he's triggered by their thoughtcrime.