And FOR THE LOVE OF GOD! could they make lizalfos tail drops more common? I need thirty to upgrade that armor set? When it took me 40 minutes to find a single one?!

I dunno. The only time I felt the need to grind in Breath, and I mean at all, was getting Great Fairy upgrades, and that was just a little - almost more of an impromptu quest, like oh, gotta look try to find more whatevers, OK I'll set my Sheika Seeker to it while I do other things, or OK I know where I can trade some other things for that... I think if you just let the game go at the intended pace, and don't decide that you need to grind to get X now, it works fine, without glitches. I'm all for you playing the way that works for you, though. I was probably never going to use the glitch, but I don't think they should have bothered to fix it either, unless it was very easy to do by accident, in which case they could have just made it harder.