What I like about it is that most of the quests are filled just in the course of my daily work, without even giving it much thought. Same with the weekly quests. And I love that you can roll the dice and replace up to 2 of the weekly ones. I hate the 75 simple tools because it's time consuming. On the other hand, the 100 beverages isn't so bad because with my 10 lvl 1 workshops I can knock it out in 20 minutes or so.
So, overall, it's a positive for me.
As to the pass. I tried it and found that what it gave were a lot of buildings I couldn't use. I appears to me the buildings are pretty much the weak cousins of the event buildings and since I play the events I don't think I'll use the ones I get from the pass....and that makes it not worth the diamonds for me. There may be something I missed in this and thus, I'm open to being corrected.
Finally, I'm not sure if the pass is good in all cities since I only have one. But I doubt it. That would be contrary to how other diamond purchases in events work and I doubt Inno would do that.
AJ