Sometimes i wish XIV had a unique system for relics. I been told it works pretty well in WOW.
I would also welcome a similar questline like in XI. Sure it was a long and anoying questline with huge moneysinks but I would welcome that, we have litterally nothing to spend on our gil on.

And if we keep talking about XI relic they were BIS for years because they were that good and was upgradable after they raised the level cap to 99