I think it's been well established that this really isn't about wanting handouts for having less time, but wanting to feel like or know your time is well spent. Which it isn't.

Your time is being used to maintain SE's bottomline; to ensure that people can still freely run Alexander:Gordias, or the Crystal Tower raids, or older/aging content. Your time is being recycled back into what you ran to the point you were sick of it months ago. Your time is no longer being spent raising yourself up to meet new challenges, or even old ones, but instead finding the "easy" routes to gain large numbers of items only relevant to one thing.

The relic is effectively the handout. You just have to dance on the strings and pretend everything's fine and worth your time for it.