Two things, first I would imagine the first set of quests that were released were no doubt rushed and not much thought was put into them in terms of quest rewards and execution for completion. Second, logically it would follow that the initial quests are only preludes to unlocking more complex quests with better rewards and such. I can only hope SE does put the effort, time and creativity in making these quests more engaging to us players.

As a side note, please for the love of everything that is essential for immersive RPG play, add cut scenes and voice acting to questlines. We are in an advance stage in gaming and with the technology that is available to us now please make use of these resources to make this game more engaging. FFXI did an excellent job of that given the resources that was available at that time, and continues to be as emersive to this day.