I have no problems with Relic being a massive grind and being a huge time sink before you get your reward.
What people need to understand is that we are grinding old content that we have been doing for 6 months already, aka: Alex normal. People got tired of that and burned out before even Savage came out.

I want the relic to take a long time to get, I want it to be a grind, but I also want it to be fun, not a step back to 6 months old content. Yes I know its a way to liven up old content and new players who just now are getting to unlocking Alex normal to get easier queue and gear up, I totally understand that, but it is not fun for us who been in there for months already.

Sure we can do Treasure Maps, beastmen dailies, and every extra item you get from doing that means 10 less runs in Alex out of the potential 600 runs in total we need to finish last step of the Anima.
But its old content none the less, I remember a quote from a slider SE and Yoshida showed once how they think when planing and making things for the game. "If it isn't not fun, you're doing it wrong".