It just feels lazy to me, like the developer couldn’t be bothered adjusting the UI for consoles so they copied the PC interface and bound the mouse cursor to a stick. Some games do both at the same time, having menues navigable both with buttons and a cursor, but usually that makes all menus unreliable and unprecise as hell.
First time I saw this it baffled me. Hundred devs and not one person thought it was a dog shit system. As this kept happening in other games I realized they just don’t give a fuck.
Bungie even got a award for this type of GUI in Destiny