Hmmm. Maybe if you had it like FFXIII's style of menu (one quick/repeat option) or have it were you simply held down the selection button to automatically go into the menu and make the selection, some FFs if your playing on fastest speed you'd pretty much had to time holding down the select button and either holding it all the way through or stoping right where you want to change selection.

Other than that, the menu style isn't really viable anymore.