Green Bottle has it exactly.
Giving the commanders information which allows them to micro-manage is, and always has been, an error.
Cleft sticks were the start of a slippery slope, semaphore was a disaster and carrier pidgeons were the last straw.
If you think you can resolve this issue by ignoring the technology which makes the information available you may as well sit in a deck-chair and tell the waves to go back. Don't shoot the messenger.
As for "interesting toys"............not even the US has the $ to make "interesting toys" their highest and most urgent spending priority or the CoS USAF to request 5 squadrons of MQ-9s on the basis of recent armed RQ-1 experience - and he could put that funding into other "toys".