Loving this game so far, but not a fan of the pacing

I’m 25 hours in (after beating >!Kupka!<). I’m in love with the combat, it’s such a free-flowing, non-stop action, especially after you get three Eikons. My only issue is the amount of dialogue and busy work in between really hype moments. I go through an amazing section charged with adrenaline and emotions, have an amazing boss fight, only to follow it with “talk with these NPCs and do boring fetch quests for 3 hours before you can do it again”. It’s basically a rollercoaster I have to get in line to ride it again.

I get the game needs slow moments for balance, I honestly don’t care about the cutscenes, my issue is mostly with the annoying and boring down time without any meaningful combat or story progression, just a “do these 3 things to unlock the next big mission because FF games are meant to be 30+ hours”.