You also learn thay noone know just HOW MUCH time you have. If id have a parasite sitting in my head that occasionaly takes a bite out of my brains and can turn me into a brain eating alien but right now doesent seem to be doing that; it would still sit at the top of my to do list.
Larian is shooting themselves in the foot if they push the urgency in the main story to such an extent that it hampers exploration of side content. It would be like if in Skyrim dragons started attacking you more and more frequently if you took too long to do the dragonborn questline, if the civil war would just end without you getting involved etc.
