Once I caught on to the fact that the battle system was more flash than anything else and I had plenty of time to make most decisions I had to it's seemed kind of slow to me actually.
We appear to be talking about different things

I was more referring on the inability to track stuff like the exact damage your party was giving/taking, and other numerical details like that. For example, if I add +10 Strength it is virtually impossible to track the actual difference in damage I am dealing. That was to which I was referring.