Greg Lobanov

the random rain in Zelda is bad. It doesn't add anything to have a thing where you arbitrarily can't start (or carry) fire or climb.

it'd be interesting if it made you rethink / do things differently, but generally it's just "well gotta wait this out to finish my quest"

exception being places where it's always raining and thus an interesting level design decision

I think it's incredibly interesting that they chose to implement it this way. Giving the simulation preference over game design.

less fun but more real. Arguably a good decision because the rest of the game has enough fun to go around.