Scion Reliquarian Was a Good Idea, Bad Execution - maybe it needs to go

Prior to the league coming out every build maker and youtuber said they won't waste their time on a rotating ascendancy because they'd get no long term value out of it. This leaves it to random players to dip into it, but the problem is reliquarian at its core design has a rough first 2 labs, uses mid-uniques that other ascendancies can make better use of, and doesn't stick around long enough for people to make interesting builds for before it's gone.

This means reliquarian will be one of the least played ascendancies, yet it's seeing the most attention from ggg each league. Why??

How would we resolve these bad feelings:
1) get rid of it and focus on other ascendancies like warden, saboteur, assassin
2) make it stick around 2 leagues instead of 1
3) make it so you can utilize all 4 major unique slots and go around the full circle so your first 2 labs aren't mostly passive points
4) use t0 uniques (mageblood, hh, nimis, etc) on the far node wheel so there's incentive to play this class
5) use more popular end game uniques on the 2nd wheels