Larian doesn't seem to think there is any problems with this toilet chain UI system. 30 years of RPG games completely counters that. Its like saying who needs a mouse anymore to play RPGs. Use a Larian Acme broom.
My personal thought on this issue though, and the reason we are here in the first place: blame it on MULTIPLAYER and CONSOLE ports.These two combined goes probably for 90% of sales. And the easy way out to bridge computer players, console players and multiplayer players is the system we currently have.