Why does SE want Relics to be boring?

[Aylis]

The relic is designed very much at its core to be like roulette's. A way to get you to do the content you've already done or don't want to do again as a way to both help new players and to make the early game and open world seem more active then it would be without either in place. This won't ever change.

[ThysGuy]

I've been playing FFXIV since around Shiva's debut. I've played long enough to have done the Zodiac weapon for BLM AND the Anima weapon for BLM and DRG. I'm absolutely NOT against a long meaningful grind for an awesome looking weapon. What I AM against, is mind numbing bore.

First off, both previous relic weapons had you doing an variety of steps during each stage of its refinement, to break up the boredom. ARR even had UNIQUE steps, starting with the Beast tribes, crafting weapons, melding materia, and a unique instances, the Chimera and the Hydra.

When I say meaningful, I mean that at the end of the grind, after all the boring grinds, you had a UNIQUE weapon. Something unlike anything previously seen in the game. Even if it wasn't BiS, it was AWESOME LOOKING! Eureka gear? It's literally just glowing versions of the gear given to you when you turn 70. Gear you've had since the very beginning of Stormblood.........REALLY!?