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.
Both things happen. It depends on what the game was originally designed for.
I don’t think Hogwarts Legacy was designed for PC primarily and it’s full of cursor control on console.
But it also limits me to 4 spells at any given time even on PC, instead of giving me a bigger hotbar. So I guess devs just make middle-of-the-road interfaces that don’t please anyone these days.
The only game I can think of is Minecraft.
No Man’s Sky’s UI is almost entirely through cursors, drag and drop etc.
Even choosing between a couple dialog options used to require moving a pointer over buttons but they finally fixed that at some point. Now with a controller you can just select the answers right away.