With the knowledge that Dimensius is Xal’athath;s boss it seems like the perfect time to remind people that T’uure was able to vanquish Dimensius at the cost of its life. Seems like it could easily be used in the story to help the player in any future Dimensius fight.
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Xal is not the Shadow Priest artifact, she became liberated from it with her deal with N’zoth.
So there’s no reason that the mini-Naaru staff is going to suddenly become relevant again.
Have there been any other artifact weapons that became relevant again, apart from the knife?
I don’t think so.
One would’ve thought the Blades of the Fallen Prince (which are basically Frostmourne reforged) would’ve played a role in Shadowlands. Imagine if the Primus reforged those blades into something else as he did with the Helm of Domination.
Most of the artifact weapons were made up for Legion. Some were made up for Legion but were retroactively placed into the story prior in major ways (from certain point of views). Xal’atath is an example of this one. Or the inverse happened where these weapons did “exist” but weren’t named until Legion (e.g. The Kingslayers). The rest were already existing weapons such as the Ashbringer, Doomhammer and the Scepter of Sargeras.
Therefore it is doubtful that some will play a role again.
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I don’t think we know that.
As to your question, almost certainly no.
Remember, they took a bunch of time introducing Xal’atath to all the non-priest players. If they intended to have another artifact weapon play a big part you would expect that they would already be setting ground work so most players were not confused about who/what it was.
And what would T’uure bring at this point that can’t be just another Naaru? Players would recognize and understand a new Naaru showing up. Having to explain a new priest weapon in a short time would be a lot more work and a lot less effective. And it doesn’t really add anything new.
Plus, the moment they bring another priest artifact into major lore you are going to have lots of people from every other class screaming for their artifact weapon to get a big story.
Using T’uure would be a lose/lose for Blizzard.
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We know The Radiant Song began on K’aresh before Dimensius invaded, we know Xal’atath is the Harbinger, we know Dimensius gave Xal’atath the Voidsong staff to use on Azeroth, we know Locus Walker is familiar with Xal’atath, we know at least some Ethereals are aware of and working against Xal’atath, and we know The Radiant Song has begun on Azeroth.
Most evidence points toward her being the Silver Surfer to Dimensius’ Galactus.
DEAR GOD NO
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Not quite …
If I recall correctly, Xal’atath serves the void lords — Plural.
- Dimensius is but one of the known void lords, and it’s not yet noted that he’ll be the one that she plans on summoning — or perhaps it’s “first-in-first-serve” upon the titan-hook she plans on throwing into the void to yank whatever one out …
Personally I think we should have a different named Void-Lord, other than just Dimensius 
They haven’t even used the other talking artifacts besides the dumb knife, they’re not going to include any non-talking ones at this rate.
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The knife isn’t relevant, it was only Xal’s prison and has nothing to do with them.
The knife remained relevant even after Xal’atath was freed.
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He still owes me.
There’s speculation that N’Zoth simply left a husk behind and his spirit was taken into the dagger (and deliberately so) – To spare his time into building more influence and also to attain more power, as he was declared the ‘weakest’ old god → and what way to get more power than to absorb it directly into his spirit through the unsuspecting blade carried by the power-hungry? 
… Either way though, if they decide not to go that route & simply have it as: “Yo the blade just has a tonne of N’Zoth’s power and Azshara has the blade now … Again.” — I’d still be fine with that.
I will be disappointed if N’zoth, most cunning of the Old Gods, deliberately set everything in motion with the knife only to actually die a week later to the unstoppable murderhobo squad.
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It’d be cool to find out he was alive in the dagger but only deal with his meddling & diabolical messes for a long while until he finally ‘comes out’ to play.
Personally my favourite old god is Yogg’Saron — I found him way more cunning than N’Zoth honestly … At the time of WOTLK when we defeated him, he was declared as ‘defeated yet not dead’ until BFA decided to retcon that.
Which was stupid because it removed the whole purpose of the titans shackling the old gods in the first place due to the damage they could cause if they had outright killed them, yet we come along & do it — and now it’s somehow all fine now?? … Anyway 
Imagine how he felt. 