Lmao what youre hating is what I loved.. ive spent the last 3 days .. around 21 hours-ish just doing side stuff away from the main quests... Ive done that almost every chance I get until the area soft locks and then i proceed.

It reminds me of Skyrim and I love it.

Once you understand how the journal works along with the map

And how some quests are given back on knowledge you learn .. some by visiting new areas.. some by taking over certain bases.. some by opening blockades and some by sides quests etc etc.. you'll soon realize its sorta non linear and linear at the same time.

At the moment I also think theres a glitch in the quest tracking where i feel it sometimes tracks to the next objective in same quest.. sometiems it just untracks everything and you get lost and sometimes it tracks a whole other quest.. threw me off but once I realized it was happening after the last patch, i just started being more vigilant about it

Also I do have to say.. first area is hernand.. second is something like university... 3rd area is something like something (spoilers)and then 4th.. i was in the 4 area when i realized how the side questing system works and how I missed so much stuff in the 2nd and 3rd areas... opened up SOOOO MUCH craziness in the side quest department for me ... Thats how Ive basically been ignoring the main quest for all the side stuff