I played with osrs for 2 decades and played from 2007-10 and literally last 5 months made me switch to RuneScape gold3 that I now play for a little more than a month. Runescape3 might have MTX but holy shit the ammount of articles for everything that is amazing and skilling does not feel as a exact same fucking content for 120 hours directly (yes I am looking in the osrs runecrafting). Zeah amazing content and both raids will also be good but ffs either nerf present best pvm moneymakers which I mentioned or enthusiast aged PvM loot tables since drops out of uniques are miserable at shit like GWD for the effort you have to create compared to stuff like revs that got even more buffed by wildy firearms.
I played it for a long time when it was new, and performed RS Classic for the few years that it was before two came out. Plus it was amazing for the time, no doubt about it. Thus, guess you're mistaken.
Can I really like Runescape, It's such a unique world, it's able to get a smile on my face and it allows me feel that sense of adventure, discovery and magic that very few games may make me feel now adays. I absolutelly love the fashion of the graphics (although I started Runescape3 around 2010, when the graphics were updated a little ), and also the nostalgia it brings me... Ah, as small as a soundtrack or a sound effect from it can put me into tears of cheap OSRS gold nostalgia whilst recalling my adventures as a child/teen discovering this wonderful world.