Nope. Controlling a party is an essential feature of the series that set it apart from other RPGs from the very first game. I know everyone likes to parrot "but FF has always changed things up every game" and they may be right, but that doesn't mean I have to like it. In fact, I would say that the most experimental games like II and VIII are some of the worst, while the ones that refined old concepts like V and IX are among my favorites.

I've gone from thinking it was a coin flip around the time of XII, XIII, Type-0, and XIV to now just expecting to dislike every new FF game until one can finally prove otherwise.