Yes, it is silly. Playing without some ease-of-use addos (like ghost vision always on, or shared bartering, or everyone having pet-pal) just makes things more tedious.
Luckily for us, while enabling mods disables achievements there is also mod for that
https://www.nexusmods.com/divinityoriginalsin2/mods/210Enjoy.
EDIT: Oh! PS4. Sorry pal :-(