The problem is that because of how long turn based combat takes its very tedious to have filler combat against weak enemies. So turn based games tend to make most encounters major.
I absolutely don't agree with that.
TB RPG often have trash combats.
Wasteland in the exemple I have in mind.
Of course it's a little bit different for games like XCOM but you don't need to feel special/powerfull in such a setting.
