Blizzard,
If you’re having trouble with player retention. One suggestion I can offer is to either A. Just make side quests automatically completed if they have been done before. If not, B. make the drop rates for side quest items 100%. It’s one of the most tedious time wasters, beyond playing re-used content over and over, to have to run around trying to find a geode, flower, or cache off of dead bodies for an hour, just to do the side quest.
Bridge the gap and cost to entry of time in your game by slicing out the useless fat and pointless repeated taskers that are just ultimately bloatware.
Thank you.