Yeah I had about 110 red gathering scrips when the patch dropped.... in fact I had a feeling so that week I didn't exchange my scrips for tokens, haha.

But I think they did that specifically because people like us would instantly have literally everything + some, and well. Can't have that.

I've been using my scrips like this
Red Scrip token > Blue scrip tokens > relic sand

Honestly this means I get to skip that whole section and just gather eso for my relic instead of worrying about getting items for it.