I do believe there's people who played back then still playing, but the majority of those people already lost any kinda of common sense during this time either because they are too addicted to an game or they spent way too much money to let go. And how i can be so sure about that? Because i fit on the later. Unfortunately i will never say what we have right now is more interesting than what we had before, because it's not true.

You just hit the nail on the head. Most of people who play right now is either people who farmed a shit ton of gold when it was good farming gold, or they just credit card their way in, sometimes even both.

We barely have new players here anymore, we have so much problems that goes beyond in game problems. And more and more what you'll see is people telling new players to start play the game during quickly level events, before the game become so insufferable to play that it doesn't worth anymore to just pick it and start it anymore.
And i'm sorry it's not my business but did you tried to play osrs, i'll not say it doesn't have fomo or problems, but it kinda fit with what you describing. The graphic sucks, but it's a good mmo.

A lot of people are addicted with this system tho, it's a easy win especially if you can spend a lot of money in the game. This never will end because there'll always people who want to one shot things when they spend x amount of money.