People are stupid. Most people looked at Relic weapons as if they were supposed to be as amazing like they were originally in FFXI. I thought the path to get a Zenith Relic was fine. Took 3 weeks of myth capping to upgrade, and the path before that was pretty long. You could burn through it all easily now, but when they first came out, Garuda was tough for people, and Titan was very hard, and many were stuck on it for weeks before getting him down. The old relic path contained 2 unique fights, and wasn't tedious or painful to actually do.

The Animus or Trials of the Brave isn't anything like that. You get RNG low level content for like 12 to unknown amount of hours. followed by AT MINIMUM of 36 tedious hours of farming Mythology tombs with a very VERY efficient group taking in to account an average of 50 myth tombs per 6 minutes, with 2 minutes of slack time every run.

The 9 books that can take about 4-5 hours per to complete depending on luck with fate pops etc. seeing you have to kill 900 mob, complete 27 fates, do 27 leves, and run 27 dungeons to complete that part.

I don't actually mind the Books. I think you should be able to do books without having to farm tombs, but yeah, that would just make to much sense.

I wonder how many people have actually quit over this quest. I know lots of my free company did just because they didn't want to play this game of *that* was going to be how content was done.