Real Time Strategy games are defined by their relationship between resources and opportunity. In a game like Starcraft, you can only hoard your funds and stockpile units for so long before your opponent death marches down your base. In Pikmin, the unstoppable march of time is your enemy. Try your best to min/max your time in combat, shave a few seconds off your routing and maybe you won't have to waste a day farming onion food.

The part where this all falls apart is in the precision. If I don't feel like I am actually in control of the micro actions, then why should I care about the macro optimisations? Pikmin feels like a survival horror, but in most shooters I know that my bullets aren't going to glitch into a wall and die.