I'm excited, I missed the event that ran during beta!

dormiaria (#19209)
Not that I subscribe to the same conspiracy that you're referring to (I'd rather believe the site staff that the affection stuff were genuinely bugs) but yea I'm pretty sure they are doing that with this event, it's what they're calling overtime goals. I think those are fine though, best case scenario we get extra rewards for doing them, worst case it just gives more people time to rank up in the event reward tiers before it ends. I doubt they would move the goalpost for the unlockable quest itself.