It would have been one thing to make people find the place they dropped the ball (oh ha ha, guys, very clever) but then they throw all this crystal switches at you. SO MANY CRYSTAL SWITCHES!!
I totally have gotten gotten the ball stuck by glitching and it took me making a lot of wrong turns and "Haven't I passed this pillar before?" to beat Eagle's Tower. Very frustrating.
I never really got why people loved the Ancient Cistern so much until replaying Skyward Sword recently. I really started to pay attention to the care put into it and the symbolic nature of most everything in the dungeon. Climbing the silver thread really got me this time. Let me just throw out a...