You do have a point. To be honest, I always knew I wasn't going to like turn based combat. But this game is moddable!
So my hope is that modders can eventually tweak the combat to make it suit all types of players (those who love turn based and those of us who prefer real time).
Because apart from the combat, I really like the rest of the game. I just wish the combat was more like the first 'Divine Divinity' game.
Right if you don't care for TB combat you should have a real problem with this game, for most it would be one of the first buying decisions for D:OS.
If you don't like it then you want possibly an even easier Easy, make combat fast and fairly trivial. Or perhaps you want it to be a challenge but faster, then you'd want heavy damage/low hp on both sides. And possibility something like cheatengine (search that on Youtube) to speed up Fighting 2x - 3x to make the moves go faster. I do 2x fwiw.
I do owe (in a loose sense) Gyson a guide on how to modify difficulties, I do plan on having that done today. All the notes are in the Mods section already to do it, this would just be another round up of possibly scattered data into one post to go step by step through doing this.