This doesn't bother me much even if I do prefer turn-based. It's to appeal to the ADHD new generation of gamers who can't think out attacks for longer than 2 seconds before mashing buttons, but I digress.
This really only splits the FF fan base even more than it is. With so many goddamn battle systems its bound to create separation/sides as to which is the "best", the dick waving contest in which all FF fans defend their games and insult other entries to the series -a favorite pastime typical Final Fantasy fans engage in. Being a fan of the series is hard enough with the bitching between linear and open world and which story is better and shit like that, now that its turn-based vs. action RPG.... it brings new types of fans and new types of splits in the fan base and overall just a bigger headache for me 
