Atma is bad. I won't disagree. But people seem to underplay how bad actually completing the books is. How will they ever nerf that without there being an uproar? I think a lot of people are simply not familiar with the books:

Kill 100 enemies (10 groups of 10 where many of the enemies only have a maximum of 3 spawn locations buried deep in an enemy stronghold). - Believe it or not - but when all is said and done - the average player is going to average 2 hours to 2.5 hours on this step (longer than I thought until I started timing these runs).

Leves - complete 3 assigned leves. Easy - half hour.

Fates - complete 3 assigned fates. Some of these can take 3 hours to spawn. You could obviously have bad luck - but I think an estimate of 5 hours is fair.

Dungeons - if you're an average player - you'll be using duty finder. The older, level sync dungeons can be time consuming. Let's say 2 and a half hours for this step.

Thus - you are looking at aprox. 10 hours per book for a total of 90 hours for all of them. So even if they nerfed the animus step to where you could get the books for free...you're still in for a ridiculous amount of grind. For those complaining about atma - I highly highly doubt you have hit 90 hours (unless you're extremely extremely unlucky). Animus is bad. Where is the animus complaining?