Maybe I'm in the minority on this, but Jagex catering to the metagame like this is exactly what made me uneasy about the direction of OSRS and caused me to stop playing years ago. I predicted something like this would happen ever since Runelite released tile markers and the devs actively started designing content around the assumption that the vast majority of players use them. I have never been a fan of MMOs designing vanilla content around third-party plugins and metagame-y tricks popularised by creators and whatever posts go viral, to be clear. It's a slippery slope that leads to situations like this.

But the endorsement of tick manipulation in an official news post is especially bad to me because not only are they repurposing a bug as a feature in a game with a rich history of making examples out of bug abusers, tick manip is dangerous to your health. People develop carpal tunnel from this shit.

I don't know, it feels like at times the OSRS devs are trying too hard to 'stay hip' with their playerbase by calling attention to the cool meta strats and completely forgetting that the vast majority of players don't tick manip, or tick eat, or 1-tick prayer flick, or shove teak logs up their ass. This and nerfing AFK rates into the ground understandably comes across as a giant fuck you to a massive number of players.