He’s not supposed to be still there. He is, but we can’t know that until TotK, and blood moons had stopped until he was reawakened.
If you just take BotW as a whole, you’ve saved the world.
I hated how original Xenoblade X (I haven’t finished the switch remake yet, so not sure about it) had a “fake ending” that didn’t solve anything, and didn’t even explain why shit was still going on, just so the game could continue indefinitely.
I was literally going to say, what do you mean despite degrading Trump relations? Isn’t that a goal in itself?