Having played XI for many years the answer that applied then applies now: players using a console who want to be able to take part in complex group content attach a keyboard.

I doubt (m)any XI players who did/do end-game content (Dynamis back in the day, SoA now) on a PS2 did so without one, otherwise they seriously handicapped their team-mates by their inability to communicate in anything other than auto-translate 'soundbites' which are a very poor substitute even in XI where most fight mechanics were a lot simpler than XIV's.