Aha, I see.
Okay, I can give her that point. Personally I can't stand an excessively time-consuming quest, I mean if it is this one very long chain of events, that's perfectly cool but if it say, involves grinding a drop that comes by in tiny quantities or other such time sinks, that's basically going to get me to ignore that quest.

That said, this quest seriously sounds prodigiously long in my opinion. Mostly because it's not really the kind of quest you're going to be doing more than once (and if you do, by that time it's probably good that it's not as long as it was before) so 'more experience' only goes so far.