I didn’t like it before and I don’t like it now.
However, i like how they developed it into a minigame you can play if you want. If you don’t want to, you can easily skip fishing like you could before. You will miss some foods, but it’s not a big deal since there is plenty other good foods.

If you want to have all the biggest fish on your trophies wall, you will need to invest a lot of hours in fishing. If you don’t care about it, you can skip it without any loss in game progress.