For starters, Betel if you want to say that the game is not invovled enough you are obviouisly not playing glad with a control pad, I sugest trying this level 30+ before you make any more posts about it not being an issue.
Hmm, I'm sorry if I haven't been clear enough with my arguments. Let me clarify:

I am not touching on the topic of how involving the game currently is. That is irrelevant for my argument. What I am saying is that regardless of how much involvement the game has currently, or how broken the current combat system is, a preferred solution should be one where the involvement does not suffer because of it. An even better solution should be one that is most efficiently implementable and complements the existing mechanics, so that as little resources and time can be used to make the combat system good.

If you want a game that requires a voice chat and button mashing, then you need to stick with PC only games.
I would say that console games can be just as if not even more involving than PC games. Obviously they work in a different way due to lack of buttons. Examples of this are Bayonetta, Devil May Cry, Street Fighter, etc.

These games... can be considered "button mashing", but that will only get you killed. I hope that you don't consider high involvement a bad thing, because these games really are good and benefit from the gameplay. Hell, even XIII would be like this if it wasn't for the "auto-battle" mechanics.

If SE created a radical or centralized UI system like someone was talking about earlier with a 3x3 box where after each command the cursur moved back to the center it would be less of an issue.
I have mentioned this before on the forums. The over-all gameplay favors PC rather than console, but it's not an issue that can not be overcome. I think that regardless of what S-E ends up doing with [auto-attack], this change would help gameplay with a pad immensely.

I don't think that auto attack is the ONLY method of fixing the cross plateform problem but I do think it is one of the better ones, the radical or the 3x3 does not necessarly fix the communication problems you get by entering 20+ commands a min.
Actually, a better solution already exists and is being favored over in the Japanese forums- that is, the "stacking battle commands" feature from FFXIII. Of course this requires a lot of work to get right, but the benefits are on-par with the normal auto-attack (aside from the decreased lag, but in my honest opinion this is an issue that should be dealt in a better manner, like actually improving the server code and hardware) and the downsides don't really exist, as involvement remains pretty much unchanged.

Lastly, console gamers use voice-chat just as much if not more than the PC users. Especially on Xbox 360. Voice-chat is not "a PC thing".