Alchemy quest requires 25 items minimum to sacrifice into the void. That isn't what I would consider newbie friendly. As an older player I don't even have that much stuff I want to toss on the daily. From what I have seen, there's no way to cancel out of it like regular quests. Compared to most events, DV just feels like they are being stingy this year with the event currency drops.

It also doesn't help that the items that people would actually want multiples of (the pets) are the most expensive.