Game doesn't take a long time on my end on either deck or desktop, I think it might be worth trying a normal kernel build first to rule out shenanigans with it.
For the main menu, running this once on your terminal should take care of it steam steam://unlockh264/
As for daily quests I'm guessing you mean this?
So far I haven't found or at least noticed any proton issues, but first session I had some connection issues with the server which just disappeared after trying again later.
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