I think for a business perspective SE would be a little dumb to make the relic continue with no form of massive catch up. At the end of the day they are company that needs to make money. They have already lasted much longer than I anticipated with paid sub, I hope that continues a long time. But that will only happen if they have a large group of players. How can they get more players? Mostly new players are attracted by expansions. And what's a great way to discourage new players? Keeping the relic quest as it currently is. It's a huge hurdle for new players or returning players. I have a group of friends considering returning and they are all still from relic zenith. They downed t5 and then got bored of the game for lack of content and went back to raid in other games. Now that SE is producing more content they are interested in playing again, but not if they need to grind a million relic steps just to be competitive in Heavensward. I'm sure others will think similarly.