Quote Originally Posted by wereotter View Post
If you hold R1, rather than a quick hotbar swap, it brings up all eight hotbars to chose from.

That said... I don't know that there is a way to change this, and you may just need to get a feel for how quickly you need to tap the button rather than press it in. It took me a bit to learn that at first too.
… can you show up a picture of this?
That sounds like madness...