No dawg, you did that because the hardware required a load screen there.

Have you heard of Breath of the Wild? The hardware does not require a loading screen there. There is a load screen because they separated the maps, so they do have to load the new assets between each screen transition, but splitting the map is the choice they made. They didn’t have to split the map, they could have made one big open world-style map (except for the dungeons) and they chose not to, that’s what they’re talking about. They’re not talking about how long it takes to load, they’re talking about the fact that it’s not one big map and it has transition screens, they didn’t need to do that.