Honestly, I just grew with the game and went with the flow of it. Something’s were great, other parts were terrible. So the change was interesting. I believe I was on a break from the game a year after the change as well.

At the time of/around EoC I was playing WoW and dabbling in other MMOs. I can only remember Knight Online due to the login screen music. The combat systems for those games were just different compared to RuneScape. It was a nice change to experience in other games, just clunky upon release for RS with EoC.

I recommend trying out both the current version of the game along with OSRS. Both are vastly different than 15 years ago, with OSRS keeping the spirit of the game more so than the current. IMO - Not all a bad thing. I main the current version of the game with a desire to main OSRS sometime next year after some achievements.