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Howdy all!
I'm a player in this campaign. We're toward the end of the first chapter, and the player of our party's only even remotely social character recently had to quit. No-one else in the party has a charisma higher than 12, and no-one has any ranks in diplomacy, bluff, or intimidate.
Question: is completing this campaign without a socially adroit character going to be extremely difficult?
Not really, the group I was in played to book 3 without a real party face. You will miss stuff though.
My group has just started Book 3 and up through that point, there were a few scenes where having a social character or a party face would have been helpful, but not necessarily detrimental.
We had a player who changed characters around early Book 2 to one that has the capabilities, but just doesn't want to do the talking. We fixed this by my character taking the prestige class, Horizon Walker, and took Urban for Terrain Mastery (which gives a +4 to Diplomacy). Even with a Charisma of 10, I took a level to buff up ranks in the social skills to make up for it.
Since you asked not to put in spoilers, I will just say that just like any adventure path, there are some encounters where it will help, but a creative group (and GM) can certainly work around it.