While this doesn't bother me personally (I usually play on casual), I am wary of the anti-BioWare crowd who are just going to use this as yet another excuse to bleat about how the franchise is not a true RPG/will get stomped on by Witcher/Bio has been taken over by literally Hitler.
Hell, it's not like even Baldur's Gate required much tactics beyond ''use X spell to destroy Y protection then right click baddy with your fighters'' on easier difficulty levels for most fights. Normal is difficulty 2 of 4, I don't expect having to deploy my inner Sun Tzu to be able to win.
I mean, I don't really like DA2, but anyone who says that game did not require tactics and management of skill and inventory in Nightmare is talking out of their ass, plain and simple, and I don't care that the combat looked ''too actiony''. That game was way more demanding at the highest difficulty level than Origins ever was.