That is an argument.. how?
Using auto translate isn't a problem now. It can easily coexist with voice chat.

For the record, people who don't use voice chat are in fact the majority in most MMOs.
And for the record, people who don't want to sacrifice any amount of gameplay involvement for the sake of socializing during the battle are in the majority as well, oddly! Those who want can use voice chat or ~deal with it~.

Did you even read my post?
Yes. You said they could do "something else" (and listed chatting as one option, a good example of not playing the game) while criticizing the opposite side of the argument for not specifying what they mean (this made me giggle, indeed it did). It has been said several times in threads such as this that you can do everything not related to the game at all while waiting for the TP to fill.

Every activity in-game that you could do with auto-attack, you can already do. The only alternatives are activities that have you not play the game or simply fiddle your thumbs, and the game would encourage you to do so. That is never a good solution. Like I said.

Seriously... if you still think that auto-attack would be "automating gameplay"
The game initiates the basic attacks for you. Regardless how much you try to undervalue the significance of this change, it automates the gameplay. And how much, that's not the issue. The simple fact that it does is the issue.