Hera posted a short video about it on yt demonstrating how it works and why pc players shouldn’t be worried about it.
If anything the console automation can hurt your economy and limit the kinds of strats you can do.
The micro in combat is where it will really suffer, and jumping your screen back and forth between economy and military seems impossible.
If console players play ranked they will be incentivized to turn off the feature to play cross platform as they will be at a disadvantage.
Even with mouse and keyboard, the level of automation the console does is not going to be generally good against even 900 ELO players from what I can tell.
It’s just better to have total control and be able to manage everything yourself.