I can't believe people still make threads about atma.
If you don't like it there are other ways to get better weapons.

Doing the books for Animus is faaar worse than doing some fates for atmas (and I swear fates are the worst idea anyone has ever had)
I'd rather do 100 fates, than sitting at the same spot for 3 hours doing nothing but waiting for ONE fate to spawn.
And you need to do this 3 times for each book.

If I got to decide, they should remove fates from this game. It's a nice idea on paper, but SE are forcing them upon us. We don't like being lower level out in the open world killing monsters with no fatal mechanics or nothing exciting.
Whoever got the idea that FATES might be fun for players should never share anything that pops into their head (