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.
I’d rather have a curser to navigate a menu or character page than use arrows that arbitrarily go somewhere in the next column when clicking left or right.