Gosh, imagine a game taking up time to be played!
Years ago players complained there wasn't enough to do.
You don't have to play all the modes, you could just play the bit you enjoy, and there are plenty of casual guilds of decent size where players can pick up guild rewards and not fully participate.
Agree about simming a lot of the small events but simming actual game modes is utterly nonsensical as this is content that is part of the playing a game part, and also scoring in TB would be impossible if you could finish a battle with one team and then sim it using another one or one with different mods to skew your score.
Not that the game takes that much time, Im an 11m player and it takes an 2 hours on my commute back and forth from work to do everything, and maybe some extra when having loo breaks to do conquest feats, and even then its so cheesable the 2nd week is just simming the cron nodes.
Players like you would be better off finding effective ways to save time rather than moan that you actually have stuff to play in a game.