Umm...it was pretty easy, that and the rent-to-buy system but those are both minor annoyances. and you can prevent losing your items by saving a lot and then resetting before the bird comes to hijack your stuff.
Now what I wish the Zelda series would do period, is quit using statues and make it so that when you save someplace, you start off in the exact place you left off, i.e. right in front of the boss door instead of at the beginning of the dungeon. but that's a gripe with the Zelda series as a whole, barring the first few games.