If they want to go that route, I'd rather they set it in a game where we make our own character...or at least let us add some minor customization to Link. Dressing him as a hooded rogue kinda doesn't work when he's baby faced in this game, with the body type of a stout woman. <.<; As for fashion...
If you mean pointless additions then, yes...there were a lot of gameplay elements that seemed to exist because "Skyrim did it or it's an Open World trope" without any real thought behind it.