I wish we had an option to just defer missions instead of missions automatically being marked as “Failed” even if we choose to do them later. One example was Pop Racing. I did not do the quest initially, I just talked to the NPC about it and then chose cancel. But later when I decided to do the quest, I didn’t get the bonus (Beat Lunaris on the FIRST TRY) because the game treated my deferment as quest failed - even though I never attempted the quest before.
If your playing through for the first time - without looking at guides, there is no way to know what the quest is going to be. We should have the opportunity to put quests on hold without penalty.
So I suggest that “Defer” be added to the quest log for quests we decide to put on hold, and “Fail” only applies to actual quests attempted unsuccessfully. Just hearing about a quest should not place upon one a state of failure, we should have a chance to learn what the quest is and decide whether we want to do them at that time or not.