Well, it's a sim game, largely inspired by Ant sim and Pikmin. In Ant Sim, you don't really have to do anything but you can speed up the progress of the game, just like this game. Like sure, you could leave the game running for an hour and let it beat itself, or you could intervene and beat it in 10 minutes, it's up to you.
Also the Beeples are rolling dice every time they decide on a task to do, which is like every 30 seconds!