Maybe deciding to spend your limited time on a game that you consider a waste of time is a mistake

Not trying to defend the game though, some elements are indeed tedious and time-consuming. The simple solution is just to skip those parts. If all the things you want to do are like these and you're unable to have fun with the game while accepting that some parts of it just take time, then there are tons of single-player or limited-multiplayer games that might be a better investment of your time. The moment you start to stress out over a game is when you should take a step back and have a long, hard think about whether or not this is something you want to keep doing.