Relic Deltas - A critical look

CG boxed themselves into this problem when they decided that the costs for higher relic levels climb exponentially, but the stat gains don't.

You and the OP made this same point. I've made it elsewhere. This is the fundamental issue. No one wants to relic a toon past (some arbitrary relic that makes sense for that person's place in the game, usually r3-r7) that they don't have to because at the top end the gains are simply not proportional to the investment. 

But we can and do drop relic levels on as fast as we can get them bc even though we don't WANT to drop relic levels on for the sake of their stat gains, we do want to in order to use a team at a specific tier in RotE or raids, to qualify a specific toon for a specific Platoon or requirement for unlocking a better toon. 

Supposedly this is to incentivize higher relics, but those are already incentivized. 

What this will actually do is kill creativity by making this a game of brute force in which the details of a kit don't matter in anything like the same way the relic tiers matter. 

The idea that you can smart your way through will be obsolete. 

What they're actually doing is removing player brains from the equation. 

This is, quite literally, the worst SWGOH-related idea CG has ever had. And yes, I'm including the Dodge meta.