honestly, I've never really complained about it mostly because you can eventually unlock them and because cosmetics aren't quite so important to me
but link's iconic green tunic is really important to me
the moment where you finally get it in every game that you start out in something else is always special and significant in some way, so I appreciate that they made it feel like an achievement, but I would rather have had it be the other way around, with the champion's tunic being the reward for completing 120 shrines, because it just came way too late