Square Enix should retire the relic quests with Endwalker

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

[…]What are they there for other than another reason for players to repeat content to fill time between patches?

I’m saying that’s what they’re there for: an optional grind to keep players engaged with an ”at your own pace”-specific goal(s) to work toward.

ARR & HW makes you run all over the realm & even includes some DoH/L hustle.
StB & ShB heavily ties its relics to specific content, with the latter having some flexibility, option wise.

Resuming your daily roulette/capping tome as usual ain’t unique to relic—that’s quite literally the laziest solution they can come up with. Outside ShB starting phase, there are no other steps that literally screams “lol pay me for your tome weapon v2.0”, let alone repeated steps after each steps.