As multiple people have pointed out, a weapon on par with the raid weapon is not required in anyway for any content outside of ultimate and the next raid tier.

I tend not to weigh in on this. But often the entire argument for why relics should be equal hinges on "effort versus reward", I'm sorry but having beaten the last 3 tiers of savage and also done the relevant relic weapons simultaneously, you are delusional if you think the two are anywhere near equal in the amount of effort or time invested.

Put in perspective for this tier alone, Rng is a factor, I was number 7/8 in my static to receive my weapon. That's 7 weeks of clears (plus the time we had to invest in learning the fight plus the clearing the previous 3 fights), Eureaka dropped I had 3 relic weapons and a full armour set in under a week....

People really can't talk about equal investment etc when they haven't even set foot in savage.