Masahiro Sakurai Clearly Still Isn’t Over Super Smash Bros. Brawl’s Cutscenes Getting Leaked

For me, it’s collect-a-thons. They weren’t fun in Donkey Kong or Banjo and Kazooie and they still aren’t fun now. Why create these wonderfully oversized, detailed worlds if you are going to just supplement gameplay with ambiguous item fetch-quests.

There are exceptions, of course, But by and large, it just shows laziness on the part of the developer.
Good article, by the way!