Lab event time only counts while app is open

Just the title. Ever since updating this morning my lab time event has barely moved because I could not leave the game open. Also my damage is 1. I'm honestly amazed at how a top50 game that racks such amounts of money can even release such sloppy updates. Does fudd even have someone on QA? I don't give a crap about the premium relics, guilds and poison swamp update but I'm just too fucking tired of getting excited for an update only for it to break 4 extremely simple basic and easy to test features every god damn time