All the towers and more than half the shrines originally rose kid of the ground, so I wouldn’t be surprised if they just sunk back down, never to be seen again.

I bet broken guardians remain. the remaining ones were harvested for parts used for purah pad and towers. All active guardians disappeared so it was safer to scrap the broken ones for research and development

I prefer the explanation that the Sheikha simply stripped them for parts when creating things like the sky view towers, etc.

Although I'll acknowledge its a kind of cop-out, I don't see why people have such an air of disbelief at the idea that Sheikah tech could vanish into thin air. Not only have we been shown that Sheikah technology is perfectly capable of making things disappear into thin air IN Breath of the Wild, but Tears of the Kingdom even utilizes an actual gameplay mechanism where the Zonai devices dematerialize after they have been "used up." I believe the Sheikah learned to tap into a similar resource as the Zonai, and were capable of making machines that disappeared after they had "served their purpose." Apparently that function was so deeply rooted in them that even most of the totally destroyed ones just vanished, given enough time after the Calamity was gone (though, as we've seen, it may have taken years). The Sheikah tech that remains is mostly stuff plundered, dismantled, and reassembled by Purah and Robbie's team. It's possible they deactivated the mechanisms which would have caused the devices to dematerialize after their purpose was served. This could have been done inadvertently, but I'm sure Purah and Robbie would do so on purpose if they figured out what such a mechanism was for. The majority of the people of Hyrule may not know or care to know what happened to the vanished Sheikah tech, but I suspect Purah and/or Robbie know. They just haven't bothered to educate everybody about it, for whatever reason.

My headcanon is that after the Calamity was stopped, time started to catch up to them. Like, they were magically sealed in time, but now the seal has been broken. Surely some of it got better preserved than the rest and that got repurposed and some of what we see might even be recreations of the ancent Sheikah tech.

Maybe the Sheikah tech had some kind of mechanism build in that was able to remove it after Ganon cannot be detected anymore. The reason why the decayed guardian did not disappear could be because Robbie removed or deactivated it while taking it apart for his studies. The Purahpad did not disappear cause it did not had this mechanism build in.

This explains the shrines and towers, but not the guardians I have a good theory though - during the first calamity, ganon possessed the guardians, leading to Hyrule's defeat To avoid a repeat, the people of Hyrule likely disassembled all the guardians and used them for parts (eg. skyview towers)

The guardians probably didn't disappear, maybe even the divine beasts didn't. I think it's a good explanation for the shrines and towers because we saw them rising from the ground, which means they can probably go back. I think that the explanation for the sheikah tech that is in totk is that after the calamity the people of hyrule wanted to make sure that the sheikah machines (guardians and divine beasts) will not become evil again so they disassembled them. Purah and Roby used the parts of the disassembled sheikah tech to build the new towers and Purah pad.

But this still doesn't make sense for shrine of resuraction becouse it is used to revive one person at a time and it doesn't matter if there is ganon or not

The sheika tablet of TotK isn't actually a sheika tablet. It's a purah-pad; a device designed and created by purah based on what she learned about BotW's sheika tech. that's probably why we have the purah pad too in TotK, since the sheika slate probably disappears too (...and maybe took all of link's items with it? 🤔) she had to make a new one. I assume the same is true of any other sheika tech we see in TotK (save say the guardian.) I doubt they just happened to find those massive telescopes lying around after all. Robbie made the ancient forge that can recreate ancient weaponry too, so it makes sense that they have the means of recreating it/creating new tech based on old sheika tech. Or so i've gathered at last.

Zelda’s the culprit! After sealing Ganondorf’s spirit and its influence (malice), anything that Ganondorf’s malice had effected, vanished with him, so she did and/or causes a butterfly ‘like’ effect, 'cause Zelda can manipulate both time & space. And anything that aided the Hylians against Ganondorf’s spirit, which was some of the Sheikah tech, stayed.

This explains why Vah Ruta had stopped working at the end of botw

That's a terrible explanation and really somebody should have thought of something in universe. Why couldn't Ganondorf have destroyed them with corruption? a lot of the sites of shrines are corrupted, that's a better explanation than "I guess, like, uhh, they vanished or summat".

I think decayed sheikah tech didn't in fact dissappear, it eas just all repurposed to build the new skyview towers and the purah pad and so on

All the sheika tech that was connected to / touching the ground disappeared which is why the one on top of the tech lab isn’t gone. The sheika slate stayed behind because it had another purpose other than to protect the people or to aid the hero; it was also meant to function as a way to accumulate knowledge for the hero and the royal family for the future. Or because it housed minaru’s spirit which prevented it from disappearing. Just my thought ✌🏻

“This is a really great answer” No the frick it is not. That is a completely terrible answer

I want some explanation for the massive durian extinction event... Seriously, from a scientific point of view it would be interesting Here's hoping the next gen Zelda game deals specifically with that! ("Breath of the Durian?")

I really think that they should have adressed this better in the game. The way it is, it's just lazy.

Yeah it's lazy on their part, but also come to think of it, after Calamity Ganon disappeared/sealed, their roles were fulfilled, it makes absolute sense. The Shiekah monks would wait in temples to grant Link a spirit orb and then disappear right? The same with shiekah tech, once their role is fulfilled, they shall disappear. But still many questions remain: why didn't they resurface after Link and Zelda found Ganondorf under Hyrule Castle? Did Robbie and Purah take all of them apart after the sealing of Calamity Ganon? Like it's a good narrative, but still, it's lazy.

"EXPLAINS" it's too high of a claim. They just say "it was magic!"

very cool we got an official nintendo answer now! thanks for showing this i had subscribed to the theory that people dismantled it all fearing it could be taken over by evil again, which wld have explained the remaining parts, but knowing that the people of hyrule find it just as mysterious as us makes this super fun to think about again! 🤔🤔🤔

The new big Zelda mystery.

Honestly Im ok with everything except the divine beasts dissapearing, they were so cool and just poof

This ones doing numbers man, hella nice

i think the gaurdians would be gone i. the ways of if people saw the shrines and towers disapear than its most likely that the guardians would have been cleared out and reused for things such as the towers but really thats the only way i can tink of most of them disapeared and that also might be a mystery of hyrule aswell but it would be logical for them to be destroyed in case another event like the calamity happened and took control over them again maybe the guardians were also used or made for a different purpose before the calamity and were used in the first calamity because why not and maybe didnt disapear because it wasnt exactly yhteir original purpose but idk just some thoughts

Real answer: we didn't design ToTK to have both Zonaite and Sheikah tech, so Sheikah stuff disappeared. The lore can be rationalized all we want, but it doesn't matter. I'm actually quite satisfied with the handwaving of the topic.

Thats so lame bruh what

I really hate this explanation. Why should the goddes want that the technology just disapear's, if it could serve more than just the purpose of defeating ganon? It was so much work to get this far to invent this technology and it could help the people of hyrule so much and she just "welp, you had your fun, didn't you?" Now I won't let you keep it and I didn't even help coming up with it. Stupid move Hylia, I never thought I'd insult her.... oh man😅