Exactly what I did. I logged in, spent 45 minutes doing those, and went and did other stuff. While they did get boring, the reward at the end is worth it. Getting back on topic, the Hytbold dailies certainly aren't something I'm hoping for in ESO, at least with the type of reward at the end that LOTRO has (basically one of the best armor sets in the game). To be honest, I kind of like the idea of slowly rebuilding something over time, like Hytbold, except the reward shouldn't be practically required in most raid groups like in LOTRO. It should just be unlocking a certain cosmetic or house or something.
While they might show a lack of imagination, I think dailies are great for earning rep with a faction. For example, lets say you have Faction X and you need 20,000 reputation to get to the next rank in it. You log in, do a quest that gives you 2,000 rep with that faction, great. That quest also unlocks some dailies for that faction. Let's say it unlocks 3 dailies, giving you 2,000 rep each. You do those 3, and gain 6,000 rep. You now have 8,000/20,000 rep. You go on to do the next quest (not a daily) to get more rep and that gives 2,000 rep, but let's say the quest is too hard and you can't do it. You really want the reward that comes when you get the 20,000 rep required, but you don't want to level up to do the quest that gives rep because it would make the reward obsolete. So, because you have those 3 dailies, you can come back the next day and get 6,000 rep, bringing you at 14,000, and the day after when you do it you'd get your 20,000 rep.
Aside from my crappy example, dailies are rather nice to do to slowly progress toward a goal. And in some cases in LOTRO, with 3-4 factions I believe, dailies are required to get max. reputation with that faction, one of them requiring about 10 days worth or so to get. Dailies weren't that big of a deal, they took all of a hour at the most, and then you'd go on your way. I'm not saying ESO should have something like this, but I think it should have a daily or two for each faction that gives some rep with the faction, so in case you can't do the next quest in the questline to get rep, you can still do the daily and get some rep. I don't support dailies that give out large advantages in-game if you grind it enough though (I.E Hytbold in LOTRO).
Just my two cents.