The randomness has an appeal to it. Even if I don't personally like it in most cases. It's a sort of mystery tax that helps spurn maintenence shopping like poisons and also prolonges gameplay in a way to facilitate a slower but less organized match up. I tend to beat every random counter I get in jrpgs as it serves for my grind. Very rarely will I try to install flee unless it fucks my builds massively or is resource prohibitive. People aren't in the ebony to hate random battles but I think they are in the wrong for claiming they are an objective bad game design element. They just get applied poorly.