But if all we get after spending millions of gil and countless hours into it is a "easier" start to the new relic grind then i will feel very sad indeed and most likely wont be going for the next relic.
I always figured this is how the current relics would end. I mean, the progression of this game is VERY vertical, and it's designed from the ground-up to be accessible for new and returning players. It wouldn't make sense to continue the current relics and eventually build an access quest that would require new players to grind through the entire quest chain. By resetting the quest, the new relic remains accessible to people who start playing at HW.

For this reason, I only pursued a single relic, and I didn't spend too much on the uber 1337 materia for my stats. I had a great i135 weapon, and now I'll get to use it for a bit in HW, and then it will be a glamor piece... and I'm totally cool with that.

Lesson learned, though, for everyone else who saw fit to grind out multiple relics and dump millions of gil into them.