[Main Story Quests] "Role-playing" duties-- can they be optional, please?

[Reiryuu]

not going to happen because it costs too much.

if it's optional it means they have to make the fight and they have to make a cut-scene that people who skip the fight can watch. they're not going to get approved to do double work for you.

i don't really care for them either, but this is a game first, more options to play is not bad.

There is literally like no story contained within the fight itself. Besides, you can skip every cut scene in the main story and the cutscenes thereafter don't take into account whether or not you skipped the previous cutscene(s). If the fights are trivial, the story contained within is trivial, and I can skip the cutscenes (which probably cost more to make with voice acting and all that), then why not be able to skip these? And before you try to make the argument that maybe these cutscenes will contain important story elements in the future-- how will that affect people who stream the game on Twitch and skip the cutscenes to avoid story spoilers for their viewers? Will they be screwed now because they can't skip the fights and some guy in the fight says something that spoils a major plot point? As for work, I'm really not asking for much more than Press ESC -> skip optional duty -> duty ends, life goes on.

I also notice that you say more options are a good thing while advocating for a feature that is not optional.