Maybe new Kotaku staff did not know, but old Kotaku staff were aware:

I felt like the game was showering me with arrows on the outset, but now I’m regularly spending all my rupees on restocking those.  What an absolute pain in the ass and I might indulge in the dupe for that.

J O U R N A L I S M

So...this entire article is just reposting one dude’s tweets?

Trying to get comments on this site to load properly/efficiently should be on that subreddit lmao

Cool.