The worst part is, it seems like they moved "Skip" to make room for the (honestly pretty silly) battle animations — but it didn't even accomplish that because there are still quite a few that extend up high enough to block the button, and I still find myself having to re-click "Skip" sometimes after my first click didn't register due to the edge of a character blocking it.
So the button position was made far more inconvenient for effectively no reason, when it would've been far more effective to just place "Skip" BELOW the animations where it really would be out of the way!
Still, after 5 weeks it's starting to feel like a "no" on this, disappointingly. @jpanda Nice idea, but I have trouble imagining a bypass option being offered without a Bonbon or Krampon or whatever they're called (Koban!) tax to make use of it. (Like the 6 Kobans coming and going, now, to auto-populate or auto-clear the Places of Power activities. Zoinks.)