Although some people I'm sure loved XII, I thought the gambit system completely destroyed that game and so many others agree to this
Your opinion is your own and I have no qualms with it but I wanna say that so many others will also disagree with you, FFXII was mainly well received outside the GameFAQs community. I played the game through once without using gambits, its possible and its slow but I enjoyed gambits because they themselves were a form of strategizing.