I was literally just coming here to start a thread about this very same thing.

PS4, before the patch you could enter virtual mouse mode and right click (r2) the text bubble and set the scaling to 140% which was *good enough* to read text from my recliner, and it's not even an eyesight issue, perfect vision with corrective lenses, text was just made way too small when stormblood came out.. now r2 does nothing but advance the text. Why the hell would they remove that? Seriously..