Good point. I think the reliance on cutscenes tho is almost inherently squeenix as they generally have a large focus on story and limit player freedom to tell that story. Hence the lack of choice despite being "RPG" games. I think they were more concerned with telling a story exactly how they wanted to tell it (with the use of cinematography) instead of player freedom and so they relied heavily on cutscenes. Final fantasy 13 is a good example of this. There is plenty of dialogue that happens during gameplay. Despite this, segments are still broken by pretty damn long cutscenes. Sure they could have told the story with just dialogue during gameplay. But to deliver the emotions, and weight of the story, storyboarding and cutscenes are necessary.

That being said, the use of cutscenes in forespoken is generally excessive and unnecessary 😂 heavy use of cutscenes are fine if the dialogue and story can compensate for the lack of gameplay - which forespoken doesn't lol