Sorry, but being able to log in on patch day and spend 30 seconds to buy the tome items and get the weapon day 1 with no effort is not fun. The whole idea behind the relic weapons was they were meant to be a grind. Rather than requiring skill to obtain a strong weapon, you traded time instead.

Just to compare to other weapons, Savage weapons require skill to beat the final floor, Exquisite weapons require you to clear Criterion Savage, another skill check as well as requiring 500 capped tomestones and an item which still requires you to at least clear floor 3 of savage (though it will be obtainable outside savage at some point before 7.0). Current relic require 6000 uncapped tomes, if you were to do one from scratch, though most will do them as each step comes. Just to put the 6000 tomes into perspective, you can do all your roulettes each day and have the weapon within a week.

The main thing that annoys me about this weapon is it is passive. You do not need to go out of your way to obtain it, it is just something you pick up along the way. Because of that, there is nothing inherently special about these weapons. Now, you might claim, you just want it to show off and to that I say....YES. It is a symbol that I have put in the work and dedication to getting the weapon, just like the savage/ultimate weapons are symbols for people that have cleared those fights. The earlier you get the item, the better. You might claim it is just me lording it over everyone else, but that isn't the case. It is a symbol to show my dedication to the game. That time when you could say, yes, I have grinded out 2-3 current weapons and people were amazed about you could stomach the grind.

The relic weapon being a grind was part of the appeal for a lot of people. However, the grind is not for everyone. If it isn't for you, just don't do the weapon. However, another issue people tend to have is they assume you have to sit and grind out the weapon in one hit, which is far from the case. Alot of them you could do in your own time and make progress when you had some spare time. In effect, it was a time filler.

To go onto past weapons being tome dumps, especially the HW relic, that just was not the case at the time of release plus, any tome grind was either complemented by either another, non tome way to get the items (though often a bit slower) or there were other things you had to get alongside the tomes so there wasn't really a benefit to just pure grind out the tomes. Which meant you could spread out that tome grind over a longer time. If required, I could break down all the 'tome' steps on release and show you that it was more than just a tome grind.

We have a tome weapon, we do not need a second one.