Now that the whole event has been revealed, I do not mind it as much. The only issue with it is that the staff did not respond to questions which just made things seem really unattainable in the beginning. ''the rest of the tasks will have higher rewards'' and I think it would have put a lot of people to ease, but all we heard was that we got one less town hop and the leaderboard being removed.
But this is all a learning experience, and hopefully the next event will have been improved from this one!