I'm going to have to disagree with regards to seeing the level skip implemented again for 5.0

This isn't because I don't like the idea, far from it, I think it's a nice nod to people who have completed previous weapons to get a head start, and I recall being really jealous of those who had the 2.0 relic while working on Heavensward (I wasn't playing through all of 2.0, so I had to do my 3.0 relic by grinding fates to start with) BUT Eureka has turned off many players from completing the relic. For example, in my static raid group, every single one of us last expansion had our relic weapon by the time it was done, and we did use it initially to progress on early tiers. But this time around, only one person in our group has it. I don't know if that trend is consistent across all players, but if only 1-2 in 8 players did the Eureka quests to completion, that means the vast majority of players won't be able to take advantage of this step in 5.0. This won't be because they didn't want relics, as I said before my normal play group had all of us complete them by the end of Heavensward, but because Eureka was content that really turned us all away.