Why is "It's something to do" apparently a valid defense?

[Alahra]

Also silent above this post is right the old relic alway lagged behind the raid tiers. That's why the tome or primal weapons are the most efficient weapon's to get

In ARR, this was only true for raiders that could reliably get the token item previously necessary to get the tomestone weapon, though. Non-raiders had access to their weapon around the time the Unidentified/Encrypted Tomestones were made available outside of the corresponding raid battles.

With that requirement apparently now waved, this could be true in 3.2, but we honestly don't know. It's entirely possible that with weapons being more readily available now than they were in the past, they may release relic stages sooner than they used to. It's also possible that we'll see the requirement for a raid drop for the tomestone weapon reinstated, too--they may have not put one on the Esoterics weapons because of the delay in the release of the Anima questline, for all we know.