I had this wild fantasy of an alternate reality with Link waking up to a world where...everything is hunkey-dorey okay, and it turns out Ganon is actually a just and benevolent king who overthrew the corruption of Hyrule's court, thus ushering an era of untold prosperity.

But the power of the blight is gnawing away at him and corrupting him, so the realm is slowly but surely being eroded by darkness, and everyone has to work together to either find a way to purge the blight from Ganon, or take up arms and kill the man.

There's of course a faction of Sheikah who remain loyal to the crown of Hyrule, and there's the matter of Princess Zelda who remains a benevolent and just princess, just, y'know, her father did get killed by the current king...

But I feel you. The story's pretty...solid, that thinking of a neat plot in the original world would probably require the same measure of contrivance to make it work. Especially since the games explore BotW, the war predating it, and the sequel pretty well.