The reason FFXIV is lacking content is because of casualization.

[Saraide]

And that's fine. But why does basically everything has to be catered to the casuals instead? Especially the good old relic weapon, which used to be a long grind. Especially since they just use the old way of recycling content and grinding tomestones for it, so not much dev time is needed. Especially since casuals already get an ilvl 620 tomestone weapon without much effort which soon should be upgradeable to ilvl 630 with the 24-man raid.

What's even the point of this relic weapon? Why does it even exists? What does it add to the game?

To look pretty?