The Letter is up

[Gramul]

That's not all he's been doing with the battle system.
Fixing and improving animations, working on a job system, restructuring how battle actually plays, how stat's are calculated, giving us areas in which to practice and use said job system, and other crap like that.

They couldn't move on to the new content before first making the system suit the players desires, and yes, auto attack has been wanted by many players.