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.
They’re technically mouse-navigable, but they’re awful at it. The currently-click-selected option is not always obvious.
SkyUI is one of my must-have mods for that reason.