Been watching YouTube videos of Final Fantasy IX battles, and they are indeed slow at times, with characters taking ages to do things after the command has been entered. Steiner had Auto-Potion on one video, and it was a one on one battle (the monster in the shop in Treno), and it slowed the battle down, like hell! It was literally "attack, potion, attack, potion..." it took forever for Steiner to do the actual command he was given.