I love both HK and WotW and would rank them equally, just for different reasons.

lol same here. I can’t even get through the first pantheon, it’s ridiculously hard.

And then you have to ask yourself, once you’ve defeated the Hollow Knight, are you really finished, or are you only finished once you’ve re-battled all the bosses in the Pantheons, in sequence, without dying, with your abilities nerfed?

Yes, yes you should. The sheer size of the map is mind blowing!