Isnt autoresolve an even worse way of you not interacting with your characters?
In KOTOR most battles were over in less than 30 seconds anyway. I could see this perhaps being an issue if you only had one character to control but you have several, so one is likely to be active all the time.
It's like with IE games. I left the fighters mostly on AI control, because they were doing what I wanted them to do anyway.