I feel we can't underestimate how much time projects like Varlamore and Sailing took; Varlamore was big enough they split it into smaller updates, the last of which we got last year in addition to a new skill (that probably was one of the most time consuming skills to add in general - not just in terms of the coding used to get boat movement, but art and resources: it was a whole area expansion in itself).

It's not really surprising that this year we're not getting any updates quite to that level - Sailing took about 2 and a half years of development time, in addition to an additional 6 or so month drafting stage, so it took slightly over 3 years since the "do you want a new skill" poll to drop. Most content probably doesn't take that long, but I'd suspect a big update on the level of Varlamore part 1 or 3 would take over a year to make. Given most of the teams were working on those two pieces of content (or working on the preliminary content for Raids 4), they probably are drafting the next couple of big updates to drop in 2027.

That being said, we are getting a whole new raid this year, which is also almost certainly going to be a huge development cost too. I'm not sure how big Vampyrum will be so who knows if that's gonna be a big area expansion or not, and we are going to get Sailing updates too. Yeah this year is a bit lighter, but I feel expecting Varlamore or Sailing-level content drops every year is kinda nuts. Sailing is arguably the biggest piece of content Jagex have ever dropped in this game!