Yoshi P said in a stream just before 3.5 dropped that aether oil will be nerfed in 3.51 while sand nerf will be 3.5. Despite people saying aether oil is the easy step, it is still time gated by 5 weeks unless you want to further your already long lore grind. They should just change the name from anima to Lore relic.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...on_the_stream/

first comment there.