Oh, how great could it be! All the possibilities of micromanagement still left untapped! Maybe we shouldn't even see fiefs and our own faction members on the map outside our own line of sight?
I can see the justification for seeing your members and fiefs (should only be able to at level 2 or above so you can leave new recruits in the dark, but I digress...)
I don't think it's bad micromanagement. If you want a player to do something, they need to be able to communicate it to the people making decisions. You should have to send out a spy to scout out enemy fiefs (IMO), and if enemies are marching on your northern border and you're far away in the south, you should need someone to inform you there's enemies coming.
Otherwise I fail to see why we're even playing the game if it's a single player version of a strategy game that you're looking for (where one person manages everything).