I’ve never understood why the Gambit system never came back especially now that the series is going full action. This doesn’t mean I want the game to play itself like XII but my point is that, your party members should be able to do shit on their own instead of just standing around waiting for commands for everything. The Synergy materia in 7R didn’t really fix the issue. Your AI teammates should be smart enough to handle themselves like use buff magic or use items, not just go full defense mode the second you switch characters. XV had the opposite issue where the party acts too aggressively and constantly gets themselves killed with no option to command them to fall back or play defensively.

Meanwhile, the Tales games nailed this like 20 years ago. FF always feels like it’s playing catch-up other series when it comes to action and party AI and that’s exactly why the Gambit system should come back. If they’re too lazy to program decent AI, just let players do it themselves.