it is very funny to respond to 'the game feels like work' by telling somebody to focus on the excessive amount of garbage in the base
that said, while the daily tasks offer a lot of credits, they aren't mandatory (and the X drives daily becomes trivial once you have some download, detector, & processing upgrades)
it's also worth using the hash code driving time to do some exploring! if you route your dishes so you're taking the shortest path, you'll have plenty of spare time to find some really cool stuff around all those dishes.
head out in the morning, get the codes, and return when it gets dark or when you feel like it!