Mehh I personally feel the opposite. Half of owning a relic is the look. I would have preferred them to have stayed sitting on their pedestal that they currently are sitting on. They kind of dropped in satisfactional value to me after rolling over a few in bed. I have made 2 so far, and am not a crybaby elitist who cares that people got to mess with them for free, but I feel as though my satisfaction for getting more in 2.0 will be reduced, because of the "been there done that" mentality.
It's a pretty different feeling to actually quest for it for the first time, and equip it then it will be after I have already messed with it I think.
Regarding the thing I am thankful for~ mine is very generic.
I am thankful to yoshi/dev team for sticking it out and taking a garbage game, firstly making it playable and then throwing their hard work out the window by recreating a better version of the same thing. Must have taken some patience to listen to the suggestions to add Bacon Mages into the game, etc.