Relics purpose seems to be misunderstood. A lot of people are referring to it as a casual thing but I don’t think they ever have been. They’ve been accessible to all which is different from being casual. I don’t remember any end of expansion where literally everyone is running around with them. A few things caused this I think.

1. Previous relic grinds have been heavily nerfed so this has become new players expectation of what a relic should be like.

2. The opening steps were way too easy. They usually start with a huge grind. This caused pretty much everyone to start them and now they are understandably disappointed they’ve got to do a big grind.

As for the relic and set up itself, I wish the whole thing were in Bozja and tied more to the story. I know technically you can do it there but they’ve done everything they can to make you not want to.