Quote Originally Posted by Scotty_ffgamer View Post
I think his argument is that the auto battle doesn’t mean it plays itself because your focus is on picking and changing paradigms rather than the specific abilities. It doesn’t really play itself any more than other Final Fantasies since auto-battle is essentially replacing hitting the attack button over and over.
Pretty much sums it up.

I also love the paradigms because the quickness of shifts make spells like haste and protect useful even in normal enemy encounters, where as in past titles you would typically save buffs and debuffs for boss battles because a normal battle would usually go by too quick to justify using them.