Agree, red scrips and the favour system is absolutely terrible.
Why can't it simply be like the old forager gear, where you would do your daily ixal quests, and then exchange directly the ixal currency for sealants.

No...let's make them go through the snorefest of capping red scrips.........and then, use the red gathering scrips to change it for tokens, and then, exchange the gathering tokens for favours, and then, mindlessly gather the ooids and bs that you need (good luck), and then, exchange the ooids, bs and craft tokens for the final mats...

SE's fix to this:

"Let's increase the amount of red gathering scrips obtained in every turn in"

wth?