Quote Originally Posted by Risvertasashi View Post
Yeah... on the one hand, I can understand the negative feedback. On the other hand, they actually said in interviews it was going to be just like the relics after 2.0. Not really mad at SE myself,
Even the intial relic quest in 2.0 was indefinitely better than starting straight up with an Atma grind. There's no trials, no lore, and an entire step is dedicated to revisiting 2.0 content in a way that it doesn't even enliven the participation, because you can do it unsynced.

Could say they literally meant just that, the relic steps after the intial one. Even though I'm sure ther was countless feedbacks to the dislike of Atma and animus fates. In which case they jsut decided to mill out the good parts that was well received, and kept the bad that no one really liked (which is an incredibly backwards thinking when it comes to designing content)