These are the types of quests which they give to level 10 noobs in WoW. This is kinda sad. Once upon a time EQ players were fighting the very gods themselves in the Planes of Power expansion.
Now we're, essentially, cleaning up sh*t in barnyards...
There have always been small quests like this in EQ. The Planes of Power progressions were not quests, they were raid progressions - there were quests associated with the zones as you got keyed for them. All that still exists in the new expansions. Raiding progression, killing Gods/Demi-Gods/Dragons/Nasties etc.