Haven't played this version of FF, but am currently going through my first playthrough of the classic FF7, fully modded via 7th Heaven.
I'm a 90s kid and grew up with these games...but it took me 30+ years to load up FF7....
I realized one thing...i DESPISE games that force random encounters...just can't do it...fucking hell just can't do it!!!!
I grew up spoiled on games like XII and the XIII's where you can see the enemies and, most of the time, give them a wide birth if you wanted to. With this system you run into a different kind of problem sometimes; if you're farming a beast for a certain drop then it will eventually stop spawning.