The one time I left the game in frustration for a while, it was after a balance patch when I had to re-gear my characters. When I came back, I focused on legendary armor/sigils/runes, so that I would never have to deal with that frustration again.
I'm still here because, having gotten my legendary, I don't have to grind for things and can still play end-game content. You took a step away from that with the jade bot cores. Don't take another step away from that with relics. I don't want "compensation", I want to have the functionality that I grinded for and spent gold and gems on, so that I would be able to ignore that part of the game for the rest of my play time. Please don't ruin that.