well, the game cant read you mind to know when you want to read text or not, thats why its ok to do other stuff, there are as you mention, ways to just relax and leveling other jobs, or you could do crafting, chocobo racing, triple triad, do fates for rewards

there is a lot of content as involved or as story driven as you want, also even yoshi said its ok to go play other games, its easy to catch up on ilvl gear to te poing of progress new content so its ok to relax

I for one, play fighting games (street fighter, KOF and such) to just relax from work