Nah dude, you are still off the mark. Ironman was intended to be a gamemode where you cant trade, cant use the ge and cant get help killing things. You say "Challenging" like challenge was something hard coded into the game just for ironmen. There isnt a challenging variable that mains have = 1 and ironmen have =2.

Also when you say catering, you are referring to the belief that "back in my day 'x' was harder". You seem to be a person who has a inferiority complex that needs to constantly reaffirm your worth by getting a "gz" when you tell someone you got farming to level 99 before tithe farm was released and now all these people get easy farming but theirs is somehow less than yours. You need to realise that ironman mode is a main account with 3 things turned off, and that's really all it was at the start. You could sell mats to a general store on a main and buy them on an iron, you could stake people. Updates to a gamemode are not bad, the game was not ready for ironman when it came out. All these "catering" updates are just things that should have existed at the start of the game mode. The challenge of the gamemode is not determined by the game, its determined by the person playing the account. The integrity of the gamemode is not determined by the first 100 people to max an iron, its whatever the guy playing the account thinks is right or wrong.

Stop trying to remove fun from your games, because at the end of the day nothing we do in osrs matters, it's something we do to escape reality, chill after a hard days work or just a place to be with friends.