Actions take insane amounts of time

I understand that some actions taking a long time keeps the pacing of the game so that you cant do everything at once, but Im getting frusterated by how long certain actions take and how unpredictable it seems to be.  Is anyone else bothered by this? 

Currently im doing the Nanny Knows Best quest and the action "Rock Infant to Sleep" is 22 HOURS LONG!???? It makes the game more of a chore than anything when I cant play with one of my sims for almost a full day while they rock their baby to sleep, it doesnt make any sense. 2 hours? Fine. 7 hours for a sim to read a book? Okay sure. But seriously any action being longer than 8 hours in this game doesnt make any sense, just let me play :(

Genuinely just posting this hoping they will consider shortening some of the actions in the game to make a little morse sense and make it generally more playable