I similarly marked this as critical. I have 4,000 + hours into Arena, have played paper since 1998, and am frequently top 250, but Sparky is such torture that it constantly has me wondering if I should just quit magic again.

Not being able to opt out of tutorial and anything to do with Sparky is completely indefensible and the frequency that the game forgets and forces you to interact with Sparky again is INSANE. I am completely speechless on how an application that brings in this kind of money could continue to have these and many other issues for as long as it does. As someone who has worked for a large corporation as a programmer for a decade in the past this is something that would never be acceptable in most circles and many of the issues are clearly a lack of following good coding principles.

I'm in a similar situation.
Sparky always appears on both the Steam client and the iPhone app.

I thought I was the only one

I've marked it as critical cause it's like a form of torture hearing the same thing on loop, me and Sparky have a good bond please don't ruin it.