I agree OP, I've barely bothered with relics this expac when they've been something I always looked forward to. Ever since we got the Hydatos relics I've started feeling pretty iffy about the team that are designing these. I don't know what happened but the relic models prior to Law's Order are really good for almost every single job and the effects are also really good for most of them too. What went wrong?

I think your first suggestion of making the effect rotate would at least something more to the relics and maybe even improve them a bit but it's pretty telling that these relics have been poorly received when 90% of the time I see people with relics have glamoured over them, with the exceptions usually being GNB (which I might actually go for because the final one is perhaps the only good one) and WHM and it's usually the relics from Law's Order onwards that are glamoured over, the i500 and lower ones I will usually see glamoured on top of other weapons.