I actually find this combat to be MORE strategic personally. Before you ended up with such a large amount of AP that you more reasonably ran out of moves before you ran out of AP... with moves that often felt like they used random amounts of AP.
Now? Every single AP matters. There are no superfluous choices. With AP costs being very strategic.
Your point of view is somewhat twisted. In fact is oposite, less AP per turn more superfluous actions.
Check this:
8 AP per turn
- 1AP move, 2AP HP potion, 4 AP cc, 1 AP saved --> next turn I could summon 9 AP Master Level spell
3AP per turn
- 1AP move,1AP HP potion, 1AP cc spell, no saved no tactic --> Next turn summon 3AP Master level spell
As you can see, in the streamlined version, there is less chance to pass a fraction of time to next turn. e.g. less tactic. Less chance to manage your AP, it is more "use it or waste it". That is --> less tactic.
Also usage of superfluous actions is more often when passing AP is not very strategic. Less AP, less passing AP to another turn means --> Less tactic
