Please stop forcing us to play in groups

I feel like these silly little mini games are just a crutch for the developers because what do these "challenges" have to do with actual skating? Where in real life do groups of sponsored skaters get together and "get points" together? It just seems so tacky and non-skating, its really disappointing to see the developers push this stuff as if everyone is welcoming it. This is a skateboarding game and people who play it expect to skateboard, not deal with these annoying "tasks" and "getting points".

They should focus on making better skate spots, I swear to god some spots are purposefully made so people can't skate them in a certain way, like a place that would make a good wallride doesn't have a smooth wall but instead has these stupid little crown-molding pieces on it that prevents someone from using it. Theres other examples of this kind of "next gen skate stoppers" that the devs have put into the game because they only want to "allow" people to skate a certain way.