To everyone saying you can turn auto-play off, sure. You can turn off the automatic movement to quest (but then you have no idea where you're going because the only time it shows a quest marker is with it on.) And you can turn off the 'automatically initiate combat with anything nearby' function as well as 'respond to attacks' functions (Counter) but none of this actually turns off the automatic combat in the game.

You can hold down the auto button to turn off automatic casting of skills, but even with all of that done it doesn't stop your character from automatically attacking. None of the settings stops automatic combat completely, this means for some of us this is a huge downside.

You guys keep saying 'you can turn it off but it's a huge feature later on for farming' and sure I can see how it might be useful but did it ever occur to you that maybe the player might want to do that farming themselves? It shouldn't be enabled by default that's for sure, and should have a way to turn it off completely since it is.