But being able to avoid enemies would encourage fighting, since you're not forced to it.
That's why some game developers try to avoid random encounters, and that's why people always think it's positive when you are able to choose if you want to fight or not.
Besides, I've only heard stuff like "random encounters are gone, YAY!", but I've NEVER heard anyone saying "random encounters are present in the game, YAY!"

And I still find it weird that people speak against me in just about any topic sometimes.
If I were to write a topic that undoubtly would please everybody's opinions, then I'd either get no answers at all, or else someone would sound bitter and write something like "of course, I've already realized that -.-".

Sometimes my days are like this; but it's alright. :rolleyes2