are morons.
no, it's not just a matter of "turn on gambits and you win all the bosses." You have to turn on the right gambits in the right orders. That requires more strategy than spamming KotR with quadra magic and some mastered Mime materia, or whatever the cheap setup was in FF7 (similar things exist in all the other FFs, and many other turn based rpgs).
and as I recall, there were auto-levelling options in games of yore.... a certain snake that always tracked you down, various turbo controller solutions, and stuff like turning all your guys into frogs with regen....