>>713356602you need to play it by thinking ahead and knowing what you wanna go for each cycle and also finding ways to be efficient with your time use so you can do different quests in one cycle.
if you play the game and completely ignore one of the core mechanics until it forces itself onto you, because you didn't properly take it into consideration, then yeah, of course it feels distracting.
as an aside, you know about the inverted song of time, I assume