I wouldn't have been so bothered if it was the event for one or the other.. but combined, yeah, was a remarkably poor event.

The only rationalization I could manage is that they wanted it to be a very simple, and missable, quest so that new Xbox players wouldn't feel like they're really missing out if they didn't jump on the game right away. Is a pretty poor excuse, and lacks a great deal of logic.. but I've got no other ideas for why they'd greenlight this one.