Runescape was good when the players habitually called each other faggots.
I believe OSRS should just die, and I don't think that should be controversial. The magic of runescape was the other people. The game was so special because an entire generation of (mostly) boys were let loose on the internet to fight each other, simulate an economy, build clans, and more in a shared space. It was chaos, and it was glorious.
Some of that energy was recaptured when OSRS launched, but over the years the vitality has faded again and now there's only a small cadre of very dedicated players. Skilling/farming/trading bots almost certainly outnumber the real players.
Take away the huge community, and what do you have left? Empty worlds where people run from quest task to quest task or interact with the game as little as possible for hours while number very slowly goes up. Runescape is a shit game, even for 2007. It's got strong lo-fi charms with the soundfont music and primitive 3D rendering, but overall it's a paint-by-numbers fantasy RPG with a life-sucking grind attached to it to keep people on the treadmill.
The reason runescape was special was that it was a browser-portable 3D mmo that you could run anywhere, on basically any device, released at a time where the only other games like it were infinitely worse. It went viral. There were kids sneaking into the computer labs at schools across the world to play runescape with their friends, or begging their aunt to let them play it at her house (it's not going to download any viruses, I swear!!). People made alliances, conned each other for billions of gp, played out the drama of life in miniature through this retarded little computer game.
But now, all that is gone. It's time to let it go. The game was already dying by the time the troons got their hands on it. Play on a private server with 1000x xp gain or something if you really need to get the nostalgia out of your system.