His daughter was missing and clearly in danger. Killing monsters for 200 coins shouldn't really be his priority.
It's nitpicky but I just hate urgency in open world games.
Oh you meant in terms of the main plot. Yea that's understandable. However, Ciri can handle herself and Geralt is already used to her being missing. Him taking time out to do a few jobs isn't out of reach for him to do. But if you're doing all those jobs in the third act of the game then it could be very off putting. That's why I think CDPR sort of did the whole "Save now because you are reaching the point of no return" at the end of the first act because they sort of wanted you to do all that side stuff in the first act. That's how I see it anyways.