Relics were originally supposed to be cool weapon that progresses with you as you progress through the .X patches. That's what they were supposed to be, and ever since the raider hardcore nutjobs whined so much that SE changed the relics into lagging behind at least a full patch in ilvl, they became nothing more than another glamour weapon and that's what they were since. Grind is irrelevant, lore is irrelevant, it's core appeal was initially that it was a weapon that you take with yourself throughout whole expansion, but now you always have better options unless you're at .55 at which point you've already done everything that may need a weapon anyway. And if it's just a glamour weapon, I honestly don't think grind levels matter either way. The only gear that matters of any given ilvl is whatever was released first, everything coming after is just glamour and catch up.