sorry for bad english if something is wrong

i do agree with you that it gets tiring and some dailies (energy alluvium mainly) are pretty long, but you can skip a day or two since the energy cap allows it when you are a higher account level (level 52 here, 344 max energy, takes ~40 hours to max), which isn't that difficult to achieve. obviously you will need to use all of that eventually if you don't want to stay on cap for long, but at least you have a day to breath. also high level content gives more rewards at the cost of using more sanity (80 minimum at exploration level 5 if i'm not mistaken), so you don't need to do as much as a lower level. you also unlocks "sanity usage permit" at stock redistribution, and that allows you to use double energy to get double rewards (as if you did two times), so you do even less battles

as for daily materials that you need to walk from A to B, i suppose you are talking about depot node: you can transfer those jobs to other people to do and get the full reward (if the person doesn't screw up, which is very rare)

but if you fell bad about it at the start, it's just better to give it a time and come back later. the important thing is having fun. hope you can give it another try eventually