A case of chronic gear imbalance

[Nezerius]

I wouldn't characterize the imbalance as a chronic one if I hadn't.
Relic is a lesser weapon than the raid one at release (yay! more of the same).

So you agree that the relic weapon has been as strong as the raid weapon, at one point.

You mentioned that before, so same answer: it's just an excuse, and a bad one too.

It's part of the reward for clearing content that isn't mindless.

It prevents me from advancing my character's item level. Not sure about how my individual dps goes, as I have to get lucky in queuing with someone who can read it out to me. But I suppose more of it (and more HP too) helps in removing some strain from the whole party.

You're only preventing yourself from progressing by not raiding, which is still a part of the game. Decide not to raid and accept that it takes a bit longer to get the same ilvl gear. As for removing some strain, just knowing how to play a job is enough for that.

You missed my erratum altogether..

The erratum that changed your point from synced iLvl to synced leve. Synced level still has synced iLvl to it, for example Keeper of the Lake will still sync your ilvl to the maximum possible in ARR (130 and 135 for the weapon).
But this point is moot, since all the PvP modes have synced iLvl anyway (Lvl 60 PvP syncs down to i150, lvl 50 PvP syncs down to i80).