BobaFouette said:
I didn't outright say that the absence of strategy was a dealbreaker, rather in a manga where fights are far from captivating visually speaking such as Fairy Tail, having some depth and method to them wouldn't hurt. You can draw battles where the characters simply beat the crap out of each other and it can still be fascinating, but that would require actual paneling skills, which FT doesn't have.
I didn´t mean to say, that you thought of Strategy to be a necessity. What I intended to convey was, that I considered it the weakest part of your argument, paneling on the other hand the strongest one and proceeded to explain how better authors utilize other tricks to hide their weaknesses.
Except ofc Mashima knows this too and goes for straight softcore pornography since his strength are detailed drawings of sexy women.