What the...? I love that we can use staves from various levels, because we don't get pidgeonholed into the "Use this single uberweapon or gtfo!"
You aren't pigeonholed into use this single weapon whatever. There are a lot of staves out there with good dmg ratings these days, and delve didn't pump that up much so there are still a variety of options that are quite close to each other in power. Currently (short of some creativity) we are pigeonholed into using either a rainbow ele staff or -perp staff for the majority of the time. How is this any better? In fact, for the longest time, all mages were pigeonholed into the elemental staves. Thus, even just throwing the R/M/E weapons in there means more options, but there's more than that- A skirmish staff ursurps my lv90 empy...

TL;DR: There are more options under my proposed system than there are currently (collectively treating ele staves as one thing, collectively treating magian perp staves as one thing- they all do the same thing, they're not really different- I don't consider them "options.")

You seem to think that literally my mindset here is "Everyone must use the relic weapon!" That's not it at all, and that's not what would happen here.

Not everybody does play SMN like you do
I'm NOT asking people to play SMN like I do! NOT IN THE SLIGHTEST. I'm asking everyone to play the way they normally do, and have more weapons be possible to do it with. This is NOT ABOUT meleeing with summoner. This is about improving the AVATARS. Please, get your mind past this fact so you can understand my position better. This is about more weapon possibilities and better avatar DPS. You're missing the point that the whole idea is to ensure that the avatar is always more powerful than you are, thus making it so you DON'T have to melee to get your damage to a half decent level.