After further review, the issue I was thinking of in my original post is definitely still happening in tactical battles.

Yeah Heroes of might and magic did as well.  I agree to this.

Or they can just add a Brief text that says Turn ## when the turn official starts. So you hit end turn, everything moves, Turn ## pops up on screen and you go about your turn. Minimum coding and implementation needed, so fast, easy, and cheap. Which allows more important things to be addressed.

there is an option you can toggle in the main option screen to prevent turns from automatically happening.

Edit: click off "Enable auto turn"

I'd like to see something on the main map like in tactical battles where it shows all the squares where a selected unit could move for the remainder of the turn--or at least show the number of moves left in the turn over the head of the unit, or something.

Also, if a unit has a destination tile set, I'd like to see the target desination more clearly, like make there square flash or have a big flag on it, and an arrows leading from the current square occupied to the target square.

Finally, say we want a newly produced unit to join our sovereign's army.  It would be great if we could select a unit, rather than a square, as the destination, by control-clicking or something like that.  This could be enemy units too.

Every TBS i have ever played had a visual indication of where your unit has queued up moves. I haven't played Elemental yet, but hopefully i can add it to the list when patch 1.1 comes out...