Alliance raids have no business being a relic step.

[Arkevorkhat]

The middle step is the only one that has no Bozja option, and you only need to do that step once; after your first weapon you can skip that middle step. Being able to do 2 out of 3 steps in Bozja isn't the end of the world.
Remember, those of us who hated Eureka had to go through Bozja before we could do relics outside of Bozja, so we're literally in the same situation of having to do Bozja or Raids once.

You greatly misunderstand the argument going on here.
The drop rates inside Bozja are so low that they may as well be zero; if you go into Bozja for the sole purpose of doing your relic, you're wasting your time.
It's not that it's literally impossible, it's that it's unfeasible. If I wanted to do a relic from scratch in Bozja and complete all of the steps that are possible to complete in Bozja, it would take me 10 times as long as it would to do it in HW and SB content.

It doesn't matter how much people hated Eureka. Bozja is a different beast, and has had a much better reception. Besides, what about the people who like the instanced zone style gameplay, what are they to do? Is it reasonable that because a subset of our community didn't like Eureka, that now even the people who did are forced out into content they don't want to do because SE believes balance is a zero-sum game, and that the only variables at play are drop-chance and time investment? What of people like myself, who greatly dislike 24-person raids, and when given the choice of doing them, or not getting a relic, are gonna choose not doing the relic, because there's no weapon SE could ever add to the game that would be worth it? What about them?

People who are saying that it's fine that Bozja and FATEs have such low drop rates are being selfish at best, and actively hostile to other playstyles (which mind you is explicitly prohibited by the FF14 ToS) at worst and really need to be re-examining why they play this game, because if your viewpoint is that your play-style is the only one that is valid, and all others need to be mechanically discouraged, you should be playing a single-player game.