Popsicle Points exchange is missing in seasonal showcase

d42d52b638925eae​ I tried not collecting Popsicles for a bit of time. My current Mission says I need 310 of them and I currently have 136 collected. Before this, as I had collected so many, the task was already completed with no visibility.

So you do need to keep collecting more and using them in Missions - it's just not very well implemented in my opinion. No sense of cause and effect, or action and reward.

This is just garbage. I have started two of the three daily challenges and they don’t even register in the challenge progress. Are the having a laugh at EA? Amateurs. I stopped playing EA game on my PlayStation years ago because nothing ever ran properly. 

2nd edit: 

After a while popsicles thumbs may be found in the capital city. These are linked with 1) tasks to produce & collect certain items (which are only vaguely described so you either have to guess or to try - who of the inventors thought this was extra fun ????) 2) the task to complete five ship deliveries. Number of popsicles collected before seems to play a role as well, since in one of the thumbs I was informed there were missing numbers of popsicles. Luckily the ship deliveries count for all open popsicle thumbs simultaneously. Having done everything one  - finally -collects snowflakes - in the low thousands - but it is designed as „surprise“ - you do not know the number of snowflakes they give you before you actually got them.. So still a long  and unknown way to go for the top buildings of the showroom.
Indeed, this, in some way or other, could be called an exchange of popsicles to snowflakes - but without any announcements or explanations. Too much „hide in clandestine“ and  „surprise, surprise“  for my taste. Did they forget that this is a game with a lot of strategic features and fun therein - and why does this „popsicle story“ with all its clandestine appearance counteract strategic fun? I say it again: if you proceed that lane down you take away any fun left !!!!

3rd edit

anybody thought this popsicle story was no longer annoying ?
Take that - one has completed the task in the popsicle thumbnail, tick box shows green check mark. In the meantime, tick box „popsicles collected“ shows green check mark as well since one has collected additional popsicles. Everything seems perfect. Now you complete the fifth ship freight delivery and you expect your snowflake reward. But NO, it‘s surprise surprise - the green check mark in „popsicles collected“ vanishes, you are told you miss some 100 - and of course no reward. Next popsicle collecting possibility two stages away…
Oh, people, what fun, that you show your mean side …. mean in a super annoying intransparent way - congrats, you perfectly spoil it  !!!!!