I started playing RDR2 but stopped before I got too far in the game. It drove me absolutely nuts that speaking with an NPC that had a side-quest threw me immediately into that side-quest without any option to do it later. I guess I wasn't supposed to talk to them if I didn't want to do the side-quest, but how was I supposed to know if I wanted to do the side-quest or not without talking to them? I couldn't get past it.