Are quests broken?

[sorcereo]

After spending some hours testing, I've only come up with:
3 Doohickey Doors, 4 Whatsits, and 2 Gizmos.

While I may not have tried enough with the Gizmo Covers; I still have not seen one opportunity to obtain any Doohickeys or Master Gears.

"Dreamer under the tree", betraying the book, never had the quest available to me. While I was still able to do some others, I never got the escorts for the Grand-daughters or the Cartographer as of yet.

I've gotten mixed responses to this from some; so I'm unsure of what is going on... Thus why I put this here.