If you want to say, Odyssey isn't a game for people who like platforming, it is a game for people who like checklists of repetitive chores, then fine. Like, left moons as a demarcation of your progress in the game and tied them to the main story and the more platforming and puzzle achievements, and then had a trophy system for people who enjoyed doing 100% of every little chore. They should have left the moons as major goals then had all the other random little slot moons and stuff as some other accomplishment system. There's no fun in the post-game, it's kind repeating over and over and over again the things you did to complete the main story. There hasn't been one that's actually been different from previous ones since I finished the main story. In Odyssey I've got maybe half of them and I'm so bored I'm barely motivated to get to 500 to see the last world.

In 64 and Galaxy I felt motivated to get every single star because I knew the next star was going to be different. Then they have those Toadette moons where you have to buy every single thing in the game, which means collecting at least 20000 coins and every single purple coin in every level. Can't just move forward and focus on the goal, have to search behind this thing, around this corner, under that nook, so god damned boring. Not to mention how unenjoyable it is to have to search every little corner of every single level to avoid missing anything. I object to how boring it is to get 30 different musical note moons, 50 different ground stomp moons, 10 different goomba seduction moons, etc, etc, etc. I don't object to not having to start the level over from scratch, that's a good change.

Super mario odyssey moons per world