The real problem is that there are too many useless fights with trash mobs.
Removing most of them and keeping only the challenging and memorable ones would be a better thing.
Another option is an option to switch between real-time with pause and turn-based at will. The Pathfinder games do that.
As long as local politics is so successfully muddied by national chauvinist bigots/populists there's not much chance of a coordinated foreign policy to try to do something about it.
Though the current US-EU sanctions on Xinjiang is quite an unexpected development. (Also might not really mean much.)
Another option is an option to switch between real-time with pause and turn-based at will. The Pathfinder games do that.