Look at it as a timesink, all games has them. best answer I can give at this moment. ^-^'

Personally I would prefer that all these types of quests had an secondary condition that you could pick that's more solo-able (as FATE's can be challenging solo) but might take some time to finish. But you would not have to sit and wait for it.

If my memory serves me right, there's like 1 quest in each Beast Tribe that is a FATE quest. And when "leveling" up those Beast tribes you unlock more quest giver and can choose to skip quests if you don't like them. I did that in the end. Sure I would lose some Reputation points, but it was easier on myself.