the real answer is boats & sailing
Sailing is trash. At least you dont have to do much of it.
I also have an issue with some of the auto start quests, a good example is hattoris quest, once you talk to him because he's got a fuckin blacksmith icon, you get roped into a level 24 quest in an area you're likely only around 12 when you hit. Fortunately you can chump the op, slow, enemies easily, just takes forever. Problem being once you've talked to him, if you see him at the docks even if it's not the active quest it automatically triggers leading you to say give me a minute. For the ocd in me it's hard to ignore the quest when this happens.