The only "long-term" goal in the game, relic weapons, has had (at best) mediocre rewards. You spend months, or in the case of the players who have been around since launch over a year, grinding out a weapon that is in most cases subpar to raid drops. Only once for a brief period of time was the grind actually worth it, and that was with the extreme caveat that you spent tens of millions of gil to infuse the right materia.

That's right, the ONLY long-term goal in the game right now nets you a reward of "you'd get better gear from farming tomestones and getting a couple of drops, or clearing T13 and getting lucky, than wasting months of your time on this shit" weapon.