Soaps are just time fillers. There is no start middle or end and the writers are pretty random.

Soaps just don't make any sense to me. They serve to do little more than shock or provoke and so the characters have ridiculous arcs. I have nothing against that per se, but I prefer it to be within the realm of something that is beautifully written or has some level of richness. Soaps are base and appeal to nothing more than the lowest common denominator.

They just go on forever and why would you bother spending 3 days a week over 40 years with that? It's very silly.