Honestly SE should just bite the bullet and have a longer patch cycle.

There's no way they will be able to produce non-grindy content if they try to fit themselves into a 3 month window, and Crystal knows taking longer than 3 months to give us what they do will just piss people off more.

Their content cycles should be at least 4 to 6 months at best, then they can make the Savage Alexander as terrible to do as possible, at least 2 steps of the relic quests, and perhaps 1 or 2 midcore (I really hate that word btw) raids both of which CT size is scale/scope.