I believe that this artstyle was criticized because the game went out in an era where everybody wanted more and more realistic visuals, the world was really hyped about the new generation of consoles (the Playstation 2, the Dreamcast, I think the original Xbox was around that time too) and they were expecting Ocarina of Time 2.0.
Btw I think that the Nintendo Wii U version of the game was released on the Nintendo Switch, but I'm not sure.