Glad to know you're enjoying it.
Well the main point of the game is to go out and meet new people. You'll miss a lot and miss on meeting new people and seeing things with others if you just speed run the questies. Why the whole turning into an orc thing was a mystery to the player to help encourage to just go out and talk to random people.
The questies tend to be something extra or unlocks, or continuing the main story. Don't feel like you need to make progress cause it's going to be a while. After the part update, then it's going to be some main story quests + a bunch of story updates with the characters that's been teased from update to update
And like the story suggested, there will be multiple ways to continue the story with different characters, and maybe even a way to change the ending.
Mainly, we want the whole point of going out to meet, talk with, and getting friendly with others to help you out and/or change things once you get to the main story.
So don't feel too bad about getting lost, and we're adding in more QOL to help with that. We just don't want to encourage people to just run through the story and miss out on all the characters and end up with barely anything to do afterwards.