What is the point of Eureka?

[Blanchimont]

Your 405ilvl Eureka weapon and 390ilvl Eureka gear (5 materia slots). I have had a blast in Eureka, some people aren't used to the style of the zone. Yes, it is a grind but so is raiding to get weapons/gear, this an alternative route to gearing up, which I am thankful that they added to the game.

They've always had alternatives, but this is by far the worst version of alternate by far. The biggest reason is that it is by far the most restrictive since it requires a narrow leveled party split across multiple zones with terrible design to do. All the "relic" weapons are grinds, but they were always diverse grinds. The same could not be said of Eureka, which primarily consists of repetitive grind with no variety to it. I seriously hope they never do anything like this again for end game weapons. They would have been better off just have people killing mobs in existing zones for 1000 random crystals. The whole point of the relic weapons was that it was something that you did not need to have an entire group of people dedicated to doing and Eureka took away that away.

EDIT: I am including all of the first relic weapons including the "books" and I would definitely prefer something like that to Eureka. Please Square-Enix, never ever do something like Eureka for end game weapons ever again.