Board games and Tabletop games are further constrained by the fact that you can only make physical game pieces so small before they become inconvenient to manipulate, or make the board so large before you can no longer play the game on a tabletop. In practice, even strategy games that downplay this trope at least use it to the extent that you can still micromanage a battle from a single zoom setting. However, it will probably remain a case of Tropes Are Not Bad, since it can be a hassle to have to constantly zoom in and out in order to command efficiently. Lately, this trope is getting discredited in video games better graphics have indeed made it possible to zoom in enough to see otherwise tiny soldiers in good detail, while maintaining the ability to zoom out and see large vehicles and most of the battlefield - with soldiers either very small, or (depending on the game) so tiny they're shown as symbols.
