I don't think that Clair Obscur will affect them into going turn-based. We've had successful turn-based games the entire time and they still didn't budge, even within their own company (Dragon Quest remained turn-based and still did great), but also things like Yakuza shifting to turn-based combat over action and growing bigger than ever.
I'd be happy if they went back to something more strategic, but I'm very much not expecting it. They've been extremely stubborn on this in particular, for reasons totally unfathomable to me.
As for hopes, I don't know. I enjoyed FF15 okay but I never even looked at FF16 after they made it into some kind of Game of Thrones-inspired thing. That's about as far from Final Fantasy as I can imagine while still remaining in the "fantasy" realm, so they've already lost me completely. If they bring me back with 17 that'd be great, but I can't say I have high hopes.
