Ye did that on the first playthrough, unsatisfactorily.
Tbh that is not the only problem with the storyline. If you learned you have a tapeworm in your brain(or brain eating amoeba or whatever), would you go "ah lol, np, we have time to fix that later, just gonna look for some more empty vases first" ? Or would you do everything you could to remove it asap?
As I said this is just too beta state for me. No finished storyline should have glaring holes like this.