For anyone who played and enjoyed any old-school korean MMORPG, atmas are just a minor time sink, something to do while waiting on timers or party finder, not something to actually grind. At worse, is a 1% drop rate for each fate, which is damn high.

People also ignores their gear grow path. They think they HAVE to go for ATMA and then ANIMUS when those are high end raid gear. The progression as it is now is:

Relic Zenith > EX weekly/Allagan > Leviathan EX> (now you should start going to +T6) Rowena`s Token > Non-Weathered > High Allagan/Atma/Animus.

All people crying and blaming SE for this light timesink want to jump a lot of steps, instant gratification at its finnest.