So? I still fail to see any actual problem here?
For myself, I was off-on on my daily visits/tavern crawls for 3 days total. 2 days to fly through the sequential quest line, then 1 day to re-set all the timers across my city to my preferred time.
I still managed to complete GE Lv3 this week, despite holding it back until the event itself began on Thurs. GBG's helped out on some of the various battle quests...
Unless you're trying to say that event quest line should go back to the gak-fest they
used to be, with tons of 8hr and/or 24hr production quests, (sometimes limited to production buildings of just your age or previous for added "joy")... alongside multiple forced scouting + sector/province clearing, all of which was fantastically mixed up in a mass jumble so you ended up wasting 2-3+ additional provinces, because... "reasons."
On the other hand, those event quest lines were
hated by most players, since it took all control of how an individual wanted to play out of their hands.
Sure, the quest lines now are predictable, and after a while, they are boring to a certain degree.
BUT!
The alternative is far worse IMHO, since like most rational thinking people, I don't enjoy nor want a return to a system that specifically dictates my every action & decides for me how my game will evolve.
I'm aiming for a set of 8 fields that'll cover 38 squares and give 48%atk + 16%def, alongside 5fps + 15 goods.
And still room for 4x Sentinel Towers for yet another 16%def, and end up with a nice even 7x6 block.