Update on that: I've defeated three of the 4 regional phenomena (Tulin, Riju, and Mineru's quests), and I'm moving on to the Sidon and Yunobo quests now! The bosses are even more fun a second time around, and I missed the Stormwind Ark challenge SO MUCH!
So you'll never guess who restarted Tears Of The Kingdom on an alternative account so they could do more with the sky Islands before going anywhere else but got wayyyyy too excited about getting down to Hyrule and ended up forgetting their own plan entirely😅
It me... I'm still having a lot of fun, though. Re-experiencing everything has kinda shown me the game under a new lense, and I'm even MORE emotional about the Zelda, Rauru arm, and dragon lore than ever before!!!