I really don't know what the big deal is. I've worked jobs where I had to summarize what I did for the past week, every week, for years while working there.
It didn't have to be super complicated or detailed just giving management an idea of what I did, what I tended to focus on, and what longer term things I was working on (job related education, projects in the department outside of the day to day stuff).
It was tedious but it was part of the job so they could see who was overworked versus who was stagnating, if more people needed to be added to a given department (e.g. if everyone was indicating they were taking on too much), or if the department could be downsized and people shifted around to other departments or projects for the time being while it was quieter (smaller company in one case did this to best use who they had)
Feds getting bent out of shape over being asked to do this as a one time thing is ridiculous.
Everyone should reply easily. Even the ones where it feels obvious what the answer should be so the larger shape of the department can be scoped out by the people doing the review.
These fucking fed worms are spoiled as fuck.