In my opinion it's an awful idea. To me anything above the difficulty level of an aliance raid encounter is to much for relic related content.
Luckily AF gear this patch does not fit my taste at all so I lose nothing by ignoring it.

If they do stuff like this to the weapon quest as well I might aswell quit until 5.55 - 6.0 because there is literally nothing keeping me interested in playing right now.