Really, how so?

If you want to talk about the coating, then yeah, it gets a little embarassing compared to FF X.  But my guess is that you didn't separate "best battle system" with "best characters", "best look", "most compelling story" or some other superficiality like that. The mechanics and pace of FF X-2's battle system are excellent, especially compared to FF X. It simply has one of the best implementation of the job system in any of the series entries. 

Because nobody plays Pokemon for the story. That's not the case of Final Fantasy. Guess what happens when how the game plays isn't the #1 reason to like it for a decently sized group of fans.

As a general rule, turn-based rpgs are more cerebral. It's not just the action at hand when a command is executed. It's more so what are your options, what options do you choose, how does your action effect the actions of your teammates, what are the results of the over all actions of your teammates on the enemy. So from a superficial POV, turned-based rpgs might look stupid. That's because the person thinking it's stupid is stupid. Or impatient to say the least, not willing to understand the system before passing judgement. And turn-based gameplay isn't outdated by any mean. It just isn't as marketable to a sea of mind-numbing masses.

I have one thing to say to you. Yaizimat. 

To OP; there is nothing wrong with turn based, just that it simply doesn't justify the immence production costs that go into games these days. So now we see turn based in lower budgeted games. 

When a company is spending $50M+ to make a game, selling to as large an audience as possible becomes more important than scratching that itch for a specific combat system. 

Personally, I don't mind the shift. For my turn based fix I have games like child of light or the upcoming zodiac thingy. If FF wants to go in a new direction, I have no problem with it. however, even when all we had was turn based combat, I really hated that get in the zone thing. I felt the disconnect from the game world was just too much. Probably why FF12 and FFtactics are my personal best FF games. even if the story in FF12 totally lacked depth. 

Check out the VITA and 3DS.

They probably look slow these days, and the gameplay can looked dumbed down compared to modern games, I guess.

I never had a problem with turn based RPGs, and I will gladly play them, as I think it's still an enjoyable genre.

Only kids these days who grow up on CoD and other western action games hate turn-based. I myself prefer turn-based RPGs because they allow me to control my party members and their actions, because in most ARPGs party AI is just terrible and that's what puts me off from them. ARPGs better works for RPGs where you play with one character.

I still like turn based combat, but I'll admit, I think Tales Of games and Star ocean which are very similar do the best RPG combat, I like the transition to a battle screen and then you have control over your character and are able to switch between members if you want but it isn't needed. I like how you can set how the others work, IE healer heals anybody with 50% health. I love how they interact during battles like talking to each other or linking up for moves. Thennatvthe end of the combat there will be some light hearted celebration and all the experience stats gained.

I have NO IDEA!
Games like Pokemon, Bravely Default and Fire Emblem (the ones i played) really executes the whole turn-based system well.

Thank you XanderXT for doing my job for me. I was about to make a thread defending turn-based combat with the recent surge of people looking down on turned-based combat in FFVII:R threads.

To me saying turn-based combat is a thing of the past is as ridiculous as saying 2D platforming is outdated because 3D platformers exist.