Sorry for the late reply. I'm not saying: ״don't make battles fun or remove battles completely.״ I'm saying don't make it NECESSARY to micromanage major important battles in order to win. Handling battles should be optional, even critical ones.
For a Total War title, since its main premise was always 50% turn based 50% real time battles, in order to win an auto-managed major battle (say, a capital city) in a Total War title you need to bring three times the amount of troops than if you would simply micro the battle (and be good at it, of course.) I'm saying that this is not the premise of this game. At least, I hope not.