>>2054720
The opposite, you are defending a low effort status quo that killed RTS as a genre.
MACRO management isn't the same as "removing" interaction.
It's freeing players from MICROmanaging resources, units and maximizing APM so they can do actual strategy.
It's a plain matter of User-Interface.
You already know how you want your units to fight. But your units don't have the intellect you'd expect from them.

Beside, haven't you heard movie-game are all the hype?
Seriously, watching your magnificent plan perform, with free time to tweak or save it, is half of the appeal.

>going to zoom out to handle more of these battles at once in real time
I dare say you are the one fighting yourself.
Zooming out is already how you play RTS like Supreme Commander or the "classic RTS" because even if you grouped your units you need to constantly babysit meaning keeping in sight all the babies.

>EU4's battles are interactive
I didn't mean to criticize it.
Those interactions are just essentially abstract.
Anon is entitled to like playing with interactive spreadsheet.
Anon is also entitled to want to watch his cavalry flank the enemy as ordered 5 minutes ago, without having to tell them how to breathe.