I think the best work around is to find a way to decrease the number of tasks returned.

Are the tasks scheduled? You could consider calling the schedule API to get the names of tasks and then specify certain tasks to call first. We've done that for some of our task monitoring.

Do any tasks run regularly/more than most? You could return the most frequently run jobs, to begin with. E.g. "job_a" runs 700 times a day, check this task history and go from there.