While I sympathise with people who worked through the relic quests pre-nerf, you also have to consider that by completing each stage (assuming you did it when it was released) meant you would then have a relevant weapon for that patch. So although in it's entirety the relic questline was long and arduous, you actually only really did one new stage each update and got a relevant weapon.

Anyone now just starting to do their relic has to do ALL the stages before getting a relevant weapon, because previous stages give ilvl weapons you can easily obtain elsewhere, which is why they needed to nerf the quest otherwise why would anyone spend all that time when they can grind bcob for better weapons?

To summarise, I agree that there needs to be some streamlining of the process on the grounds that only the final resulting weapon is worth anything.