"I refuse to buy into the core conceit of this game and somehow that is the game's fault" is a complaint I see almost exclusively with RPGs and fighting games, which are not coincidentally the 2 mainstream genres that require the player to use their brain the most.
Apparently people are complaining about random encounters in turn-based RPGs? This is like complaining about boss fights in Dark Souls, or puzzles in Zelda. Just play a different game, dude.