Relic Question: Why did it take so long to release?

[xvshanevx]

First off, I am not doing the relic, so please save your snide comments for players complaining about the grind. What I am complaining about is something a little different.

What I wanna know, though, is why did it take Yoshi P. and Co. so long to release this content? After looking over what everyone is going to need to do to get their relic, almost everything was available during 3.0 launch. So, let's take a look and see what was available during launch.

Check all that apply:
FATE grinding for an item? Check.
2.5 Dungeon run through? Check.
3.0 Dungeon run through? Check.
Poetics Grind? Check.
Law Grind? Check.
Allied Seals Grind? Check.
2.x Beast Tribe vendors? Check.
Alexander Normal grind? Check.
Dragonskin Gathering Maps? Check.

3.1 Beast Tribe Vendors? X.
3.15 crafted items designed specifically for 3.15 relic weapons? X.

So, let's take a look at the two last items. We can exclude the specific items for crafters seeing that these items were designed with the relic in mind and nothing else. I am sure in the future we will use these items for other things, but these were designed primarily for the relic and could have been easily implemented in during 3.0. The Beast Tribe requirement is the only legitimate new content need for the relic weapon (I heard that there is some Diadem you can do for the relic too, but I couldn't find any info on it.)

Once again, why did it take so long for these weapons to be released?