The changes to the Water Temple made the thing as a whole at least 5x less frustrating, less time-consuming and ultimately easier than the original release's. This isn't objectively a problem; you want a game to be accessible and easy to complete for as many folks as possible. However, when you find an oldbies fan come along and play OoT3D...there's a sense of accomplishment that is utterly lost when you have your hand held with your approval or not. The same thing applies to the boots - you DO want them to be easy to equip and easy to use since this is attractive to consumers, but again when you go from having to open the menu, wave to the item subscreen and equip/de-equip to a simple button press, the sense of accomplishment is lost. In other words, OoT3D is too streamlined.
First of all, what changes were made to the Water Temple that made it easier? Second of all, are you seriously trying to tell me that they should of made us go through all that extra work to put on a pair of boots? To feel a sense of accomplishment? Feeling a sense of accomplishment for going to a menu and putting on...boots?