searching for pause buttons when I notice a trap or want to reorder my party movement in a pinch
Exactly this - say you want to climb into the rafters and shoot all the burning braziers so they fall on your enemies... even in turn based, by the time you're shooting the second, the dudes below are already healing each other, which in practice you have four people, four braziers, you want them to all shoot and drop at once, and that's basically impossible without a real pause in which to issue commands
