Watching the battles, especially space battles, should be educational so that the player would have incentive to watch them to see what works and what doesn't and for which reasons. Auto-resolving the battle should always be disadvantageous to some decree because of losing some information that would be gained from watching the battle video. This means that the battles should consist of enough of variables to make the battles unique most if not every time and even after watching hundreds of them.


Also it would increase the immersion of the space battles significantly if the ships would not simply vanish after being destroyed but some debris would be left drifting into the endless space.