They had role quests in Endwalker because they had role quests in Shadowbringers. But it seems like they decided to not make them important to the roles, and instead just made them for a premise for why you'd go to each city. They only exist so you have a reason to go on a gpose date with Aymeric, or walk around Yugiri's hometown and meet her parents. They're more "old NPC" quests than role quests. But they exist as role quests because somebody wrote "role quests" on the to-do list and they got made that way.