Design Fireside Chat Edition

I’ll summarize it so you don’t have to read that whole bible.

They have a lot of characters and want the new ones to be stronger, so they don’t want to modify the relic level stats for all characters at once because they wouldn’t like how it would affect the meta. They also don’t want to change stats character by character because that would be too much work. So they came up with the brilliant idea of making lower relics useless, forcing everyone to upgrade relics. And they save a ton of work. :D