This game really cries out for a Gambit-like system for serious players.

Not something that you can turn on and off or change mid-battle, but something that lets the player create the IF-THEN AI script sequence for each paradigm role for each character.

As opposed to XII where many players felt Gambits let you play "on automatic," they make all the sense in the world in a game which relies on an AI script to select individual combat actions and in which only one of the three party members is controllable.

I certainly don't think players should be forced to mess with AI scripts/Gambits if they don't want -- in which case the default AI used now would be fine -- but for players that like playing the FF games partly for their combat, it would have been a nice feature to include IMO.