You're not allowed to think for yourself in this game anymore lol. You're forced to follow the railroad they laid out!
But yes, I agree, this was the most annoying function from app they brought to the browser version.
I used to just click provinces in a straight row and when done, continue with the next row in opposite direction, and so on, until I'd zigzagged through the entire tourney-map. Was quite quick too! Now, because of the added animation of the forced movement to the next numbered province, it takes a while longer to do my tourney rounds.
Also, because of zero cooldown I used to be able to quickly click on negotiate 6 times in a row for one entire province without getting the annoying "here are your prizes, please click on the Awesome button to collect" in between the 'star-levels' within one province. But they also re-introduced those annoying extra screens. So now we have extra clicks and extra animations... They really are masters at making everything into a lengthy chore!