Along the lines of WIY, I’ve heard of such questions as isn’t this an unnecessary Ness. The thing is that the Menora is a unique Keli. The Gemara says that Hashem, who shone light on up for forty years, doesn’t need us to give him light. The purpose the Menora is to show that the Shechina is among us, by the daily Ness of the western candle not going out until the next day’s lighting. In the second Beis Hamikdash, this Ness did not take place, so obviously the lighting was sort of a Zecher of the Ahava that was shown to us.
At that point, where the Yidden were Moser Nefesh for the Mitzvos, Hashem decided to show us that same Ahava. That is the Menora in its real, original glory.