I'd like to suggest they get an overall look at.
Ok, they can't track the quest progress, but they did, by the way they are worded, make me think I missed something and not completed the quest step properly.
Then I became an outfitter, and it sent me off to get unspun flax. It told me to equip my harvest knife which I did. Then the blue tutorial told me it was good that I had equipped my harvest knife and now I could gather copper and tin ore. Oops.
Thanks