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If you force combat decisions to be highly circumstancial you may meet a point where the speed of the computer script doesn't give an advantage over a player's own flexible thought.
For instance, you're battling on the edge of a cliff - clearly if you manage to push your opponent to the edge you'll gain an advantage, but scripting this would be unnecessary unless speed of commands was a deciding factor and if you battled over vastly different landscapes with vastly different circumstances, it might be possible to reach a point where scripting is more of a waste of time than a good investment of it.
Scripting usually happens to automate things which are too fast and usually repetative while things like tactics don't usually get scripted - hence to reduce the impact of scripting the battle system would have to be geared more towards tactical rather than reflexive play. In such a combat system, often the player won't gain much of an advantage over other players via scripts, providing that the results of the tactical decisions aren't completely obvious before they're made.
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