It would most likely be less boring if not for the timer, the thing is that you have to pay attention to it if you want those timer rewards, its easy to finish on time, just requires constant attention, more so then the actual game itself at times.
Wish you could set things for daily and it would actually be worth it, as compared to 4-8hours being so so so so much better.
I feel like, if there was no timer, and you got a base value amount of Fragments each time, so that you could do the settlements at your own pace, it'd be a nice side addition that you work on whenever you feel like it. Sif go through all this and pass up the fragments.
And then in the end, you destroy your cool settlement to finish the last quest and then never see it again. Just to start it all over again. its too bad you can never make the Viking place look cool, and that buying diamond expansions is an incredible waste of diamonds. It has so many expansion slots that you don't need.
Not really sure what feedback to give for this thing, What I see many do is just spam the first 25 FP quest every <2days. And since we end up losing everything we invested into... I feel like this could have been something extra that doesn't reset at the end or something, like we actually build up a viking settlement through the ages, taking it far and beyond, and each new age could have been the rewards or something cool and fun.