Square Enix should retire the relic quests with Endwalker

[Zairava]

Heres what I think SE should do, keep the 1500 tome weapons, consider it as just catch up gear and call it something else. Bring back a real relic weapon with a very heavy grind, give it plenty of options like Bozja weapon but tie it to nothing specific, make it as an alternative to raid/aug tome weapons bis that you can obtain by at least by every odd patch.

This isn't a bad idea either. I'd offer up the stance they could make the current tome weapons this and just increase the tome cap (which at this stage is sorely needed anyway) as well, but I see the merit in making a separate relic weapon. It would satisfy both audiences.

Maybe to ease the dev time, they could be more or less the same weapon, but with different glows/auras? maybe the version that requires a heavy grind can have a customizable aura? Not sure if that would be possible though

if the grinds weren't artificial to begin with i could agree with it's not a remedy to the situation but the grinds are always just some random thing added to content and bam just grind it.

I think you're missing my point. What I'm saying is the grind should be a part of the process, not just some artificial restriction you place on yourself for some reason.