What's funny is the Animus books have low level dungeons set as their requirement precisely because the queue times are long.
Can you imagine how bad the queue times would be if no one had an incentive to do them after they outleveled them?
Also, in 3.1, we have no idea how they're going to work the new relic except:
1) It won't REQUIRE the current relic. Key word being require because...
2) There will be SOME bonus to having the "old" relic at that point, but there are absolutely no details other than Yoshi-P's explicitly confirmation that they will be "taken into consideration."