Why Speed Pulls?

[Sareal]

Blame the zodiac quest for making i110+ players runs i60 dungeons over and over again.

No, I won't. Not sure where this obsession of placing blame comes from. But no, I won't blame a feature that isn't mandatory. If we are getting them for increasing our chances at beating something harder, there are alternatives and most of all you don't need the relic to even beat the harder content in the first place. If it's for any other reason than gearing up for increasing chances of beating something harder, then it's obviously for the fun of doing it or obtaining it, for vanity and what not, in which case, speeding through the relic steps becomes unnecessary and unjustifiable of toxic behavior. I don't personally run the dungeons over and over in hopes of getting my Zodiac items, I run them once as I see fit and then I take a break because I will get bored of running it if I run it too frequently and I don't want that to happen.

[Almalexia]

No, I won't. Not sure where this obsession of placing blame comes from. But no, I won't blame a feature that isn't mandatory. If we are getting them for increasing our chances at beating something harder, there are alternatives and most of all you don't need the relic to even beat the harder content in the first place. If it's for any other reason than gearing up for increasing chances of beating something harder, then it's obviously for the fun of doing it or obtaining it, for vanity and what not, in which case, speeding through the relic steps becomes unnecessary and unjustifiable of toxic behavior.

If you have elected to do Zodiac, it's not fair to dismiss the significance of content at the expense of everybody else with whom you do it. There are many things in the game you don't "have" to do:

You don't HAVE to score positional bonuses with MNK.
You don't HAVE to cast anything more advanced than cure on WHM.
You don't HAVE to wear gear any higher than the minimum ilvl.

You can do less than optimal and still make it through the dungeon, Zodiac or not. But why would you aim low? Why would you take a principled stand against doing more when you and your party are capable of more? If we all do our best, then it's a better experience for everybody.