Eureka wasn't so bad, but endgame in ffxiv is lacking without eureka

[Renato]

Unless you do Savage or Ultimate, gear is largely pointless. Take Eureka, for example. It synced us down, thus rendering our BiS sets meaningless until Hydatos, which introduced its own BiS.

Not necessarily...You can get the Deepshadow gear from just running dungeons and normal mode 8-man trials. Even if it isn't augmented, it's still pretty useful due to the two-slots on the accessories. Often times, the tome gear is some of the best gear in the game and will get you through the upcoming content with no issues for at least a few ilvls. As I said, this is only 5.0...there is two years worth of more content to come. Sure, it gets outdated fairly quickly if you rely on dungeon gear but you still need to be geared up fairly well to get through anything comfortably.

The problem with Eureka is that even after you got the relic, it was still heavily underpowered at that point to where it was just a collectable glamour. For the headache that Eureka turned out to be, the next one needs to give reward that makes it worth it in my opinion. And I do think that there will be another iteration of it eventually. But probably later on...5.1 is supposedly coming in October. There's the new 24-man raid, more job changes, best tribe quests, the contunuation of the Eden trials, the Ishgard Restoration and who knows what else that's coming down the line.

Stuff just takes time. This isn't endgame...this is just the beginning. lol