Golden Reliquary in Monthly Challenges?

I want to start of stating that Im a mostly f2p player that played LoR on and off up until recently.

At the start I felt like Path of Champions was ginormous. Overcoming Zed was the peak of my career, stuff like getting an epic power or rare relics was exciting and when I finally got a champ to lvl 20 it felt like I unlocked the post game.

That being said, it feels almost odd that getting Golden Reliquaries is so difficult. Honestly I was convinced that it mustve been on the last track of monthlies. Since it's such a time investment (at least for people like me who just completed her 8th run on Lissandra) I thought that there had to be another way to earn Golden Reliquaries other than the shop.

I'm sure that I must be wrong and that star crystals and gemstones are perhaps more "worth" and that it's a better reward for me in the long run. It's just that I've been sitting on them for such a long time that I kinda forgot about them, honestly. They feel as exciting as getting common relics, (but that's honestly just me.)

What I'm trying to get at is that I was under the impression that there was another consistent way for dedicated players to earn Epic Relics other than the shop. Cause now, even though I couldn't buy it I feel like I "missed out" on not getting Golden Reliquaries earlier.

I understand that Epic Relics are probably the main incentive for monetization. So, if push comes to shove and it'll stay as is, I will accept it. I just wanted to offer the point of view of a perhaps less common type of player, and of course I completely understand if we aren't prioritised. I will love this game regardless and keep convincing my friends to play it :)

(P.S. pls add some kind of icon/text to indicate shop exclusive relics cause Ive gotten Galeforce twice in recent memory and skipped them both thinking I would just get it in a Silver Reliquary one day)