I have to farm?! In an MMO?!

Someone call the presses. This man has discovered his very first MMO.

So, OP, you realize that we're still in the free month period after purchase and the bulk of content is still a distance away. The reason they have Tome Farming instead of loot-chests is to extend the progression rate of the game at a predictable pace. Sure, several people rushed to 50 and blew it out of the water by abusing the system, and naturally they're doing everything they can to slow things back down to the pace they anticipated. This means killing speed-runs and stretching out the tome-farming period. Of course they're making it grindy - you basically have nothing else to do for months.