It will happen regardless. the relic is essentially handed to you this time around and I say many times the problem is that once you get what you want from eureka it's done for you.
Unless you fancy those NM as a mean to get your tomestones or some fun with friends.

However if the reports of NM scaling with number of ppl present in the zone I'd say that's a very good thing since that means we now have that tech finally and it can also be applied to FATES