SoRuffShoNuff
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I don't buy that.
Looking at the latest video, pausing to swap out favourites takes even more time to do and constantly breaks up the flow of combat anyway. At the same time, when you've swapped out your favourites, it doesn't achieve anything immediate other than a cooldown so you're back to just firing your guns for however long.
With the power wheel, pausing to give a squad command was a part of the combat, and as such it had a direct and immediate consequence that this pause-select-new-favourite system doesn't have.
Watching that video, the favourites system looks to break up combat in a far more awkward way than pausing to command your squad's powers ever did, and I used it for almost every attack.
You wont be changing profiles as often as you gave squad commands in past games. If you are then you need to rethink which powers you have set to each profile.