The HW relic isn't worth the grind. At least the ARR relic had you going to all the maps and grinding FATEs; so by the end of it, you spent endless hours fighting several different things. With HW, they jumped straight into raid humping for an ungodly amount of time, and they chose the 4 raids that everyone was already sick to death of running.

At least for step 2 they pulled their heads somewhat out of their ass and brought interest back to Crystal Tower; but that first grind is nauseating and shows the devs to be remarkably lazy in its concern.