You know they aren't just adding Auto-Attack. There is much more to this new battle system than we can assume. If it was just auto-attack, YoshiP wouldn't have spent so much time working on it. We would have had the Battle System already and they'd be giving us content, etc.

No, instead of being lame and dull, the dev team have spent nearly 5 months working with the new battle system, at least wait and see what it has to offer before you say its a step backwards.

It may just have its fair share of action. Besides, its not what the Battle System is itself, its what you can do with it what matters most.