The positioning of the skip button on the battle screen right now is bothering me. If you're battling versus three pets at once, the third pet is right below the skip, making it very easy to click instead of the opponent, and since I (at least me) battle very quickly, if I don't have the mouse in the right spot, it's easy to accidentally skip a cannon's turn while battling.
This bothers me.

Well I do agree. I wonder why there is a skip button. I know there was blocking which let's you skip while having the pets defend. But with skip the pets seem to take damage letting the opponents attack.

I don't have a problem with the skip button, but moving it does make sense as people who battle fast (like me) will click it by mistake.

You can click on an enemy nameplate instead of their image.

Also, skip exists to take no action and not waste mana. Blocking consumes mana to use.

The only issue I've run into with the Skip button is that sometimes I accidentally hit S while speeding though battling in zones.

This usually happens when I tell my character to retreat but I'm pulled into battle. Sometimes I'll still be holding down the S key to move down and I end up skipping my first 2 pet's turns.