Why are most allied society dailies just running around talking to NPCs?

[VictorSpoils]

If "giving more lore" was the intention of these quests, they're not achieving that either. It looked promising early on, delivering additional notes about several locations in the introductory quests and with the trainee tour guide, but it seems to have dried up entirely. The tour guide is stuck visiting only two locations on loop, and half the other quests have us checking in on the tour guides without hearing anything of the tours.

And not only is it the same few quests over and over, but the multiple choice NPCs all have the same dialogue response. There isn't much to learn beyond that.

I've been playing this game since ARR and never taken damage while doing one of these. I don't even know what happens.

It shaves a few seconds off the timer, but there's more than enough to walk through an enemy and shrug it off.