The glider placement was a lot less obvious in TOTK for sure.
Similarly, I was completely ignorant about what the chasms were for until 2 days in when my friend casually drops that she's been exploring [redacted because spoiler markdown isn't working for me] and I went "Wait, there's a WHAT?"
I'd missed a pretty critical side quest and I probably wouldn't have noticed if my friend hadn't told me.
Times like these are when our inclination to ignore quests for later really bites us in the behind...