Is there a way to OPT OUT of events &/or receiving Unlimited lives?

I used to enjoy playing the game, collecting the star dust & building the house.  I like to play for my own enjoyment & don't really care how others are doing or what they are working on.  I used to be able to play at my own pace & play as much or as little as I desired.  Lately, though there are so many different events occurring concurrently & they take over the game.  Multiple times, I log on just because I want to collect some star dust from the player's houses & potentially play a few rounds, while also logging in daily.  Before I get the chance to do anything, multiple events/challenges "take over" & automatically react before I get an opportunity to do anything.  That WAKE THE TREE event seems to not be working properly & focusing me to constantly restart the game.  It starts up & takes me to a screen to start up saying it's creating a new board, I exit out & then some other event pops up with it's announcement & then I exit out of that.  Back at the main map screen, the WAKE THE TREE pops up again because the board is really, I then have to pick a challenge to work on, but after I do, I can't exit the screen.  I also can't exit if I don't pick a challenge,  The X button doesn't work, the only thing to do, is close out the game & reopen it again.  (Reminder, at this point, I still haven't had any control, to do anything of my own choosing.) 

Also, the Magic Hats are annoying.  I like the idea of it in principal, but I know how they work & what they do; I don't need instructions on how they work EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.  It is an annoying impeadment that takes to long to show up & then X out of.  I also don't like that we can only have 1 or the magic bubbles.  If I don't use it but earn the third hat a second time, I just get nothing for it.  Then sometimes I use 1, because otherwise I'll lose it anyway, but then I never get another one because the count keeps resetting.   Every time the game closes & then reopens the Magic Hat restarts from 1 regardless of where you were progressed.  This coupled with the WAKE THE TREE taking over the game & forcing a constant close makes the two elements opposed to each other & more frustrating then anything else, especially since I didn't ask or have a choice to participate.

Finally, for me, I don't like unlimited lives.  I play this game for fun on occasion in between doing other things.  Normally the 5 lives I have are plenty for me & then when they run out I move on, wait for my lives to refill & then play again later.  I find unlimited lives annoying, as I feel like they are something that should be taken advantage of, when given, & 30 min or maybe 1 hour, it's doable, but I've been regularly been getting 3 hours & even 12 hours at a time.  I can play a few rounds, take a break & come back a couple of hours later  & still have time left on the unlimited lives clock, but I also would have been fully recharged if I just had my normal lives count & then waited for a recharge.  Sure, it's easy to say well, just don't play as much or as little as u want when u want, & that's exactly what I do, except this is considered a reward, & it feels like not playing is "wasting" the reward.  Extra Star Dust or some other special bubble instead of the unlimited lives would be a much better reward.

I could say more, but this seems enough for now.  Thanks for listening.