Honestly, quests as they are in e:wom vanilla give so weak rewards I would say yeah, it's not worth doing them simply from the time consumed. But they are sort of fun the first time you do them.
Frogboy bragged in the thread about wild zones or whatever that the AI would handle them better than the "human meatbags". As I understand it, those are quests in disguise so we may be seeing something in FE.