Relics being the strongest and SE needing to accept and work around that helped prevent a power creep in XI and that's a good thing.

What is power creep? penny-arcade.com/patv/episode/power-creep

I'm ok with relics being the best weapons but the relics we currently have are much much easier to obtain than XI's and at the matter of facts once you get a relic its only a matter before you get the rest and there are many people with 7/7 in game while in XI getting a relic took over 6 months of dedicated work to obtain and getting more than one was something only a very few very dedicated players did, while in XIV if you get 1, people expect you to get the rest.

Then again, I don't really believe that the relics we currently have are the end all be all weapons of the game, and I believe that because A- they're not that much stronger compared to Lieutenant and Garuda weapon B- they don't give new skills like XI's relics and C-The names (Curtana/Holy Shield? wheres Excalibur/Aegis?)