It hinders you when you say "oh, I'm bored! lets do side content."

Next thing you know, one month later you still haven't obtained the thing and have started to get sick of being run around on a chain. Ooh, here's a cool "meadowreaper" title. Here, you can go gather 6k items to get it. Oh, here's a cute little assassin fly minion! I hope u like spending weeks to months in mor dhona fishing. The window for it pops twice every hour only with certain kinds of weather. I mean, the effort for little things is so much more that it's absurd at times, to the point of why bother? They give us mounts for free from doing a fifteen minute seasonal event, then you have mentor and hunt mounts that take years.