It is nice that these tasks have higher values, but I'm still not liking the timers on them and still feel like elite is impossible for most of those that have school or a job (or even both!). If you have absolutely nothing to do during the day, sure, you could easily plan to come on every few hours or so to do them, but people with jobs and school can't just say, "Hey teach/boss, I'm gonna real quick go on a game to do some tasks." every set time they're available to do again.
I totally understand elite cannot be so easy to get that you're barely doing anything, I wouldn't want it that way either, but it at least has to be possible with some hard work for those with a job and/or school without having to sacrifice sleep or anything like that.