Hey, welcome to FF.

ARR is notorious for those types of quests and does not reflect the next two expansions. What you’re experiencing is a common criticism of the base story and I understand what a struggle it is. However, it isn’t reflective of the game as a whole. Once you get to level 50, you will unlock trials and raids, as well as harder dungeons. Of course, the real hard core stuff is at the end of the game, once you beat stormblood, and there’s a healthy community that focuses on savage and high end raiding.

Basically, once you get to HW, all those stupid errands will get left behind.