The game has problems.
It's way to frustrating, every little thing about the game now seems like it's out to make you mad.
The community has turned to shit, everyone has a super imposed ego, always believe they are right, if they aren't they will just troll.
Although I bot myself, this is a contributer to the community thing, everyone bots, I've literally added like 2 people? in the last 4 or so months. I talk on IRC in my main #chans and sit on vent all day and talk with good friends.
Go back to pre-'07 and you couldn't help but get involved in conversation and make friends while doing your various tasks.
Jagex have dug this botting problem hole themselves. They make every new feature unlockable only after serious grinding. It kind of started with mobilising armies. That MG was made with no intention of it being played properly, they made it wanting people to grind the suicide method for 25+ hours.
You gain 1 rank for a loss, 2 for a win. You can gain a max of 12 ranks/hour, minimum time for a game has to be 4 mins.
60/12 = 5. That's 4 minutes in game, 1 minute after repairing your squads and cannons, then back into a game.
If you play with the intention to win you hit the 12 rank/hour cap to fast and have to wait ~30 mins.
Also they knew the only reason ANYONE would play this is for the (i) rings.
Feel like ever since then they went hardcore grind mode on all there item releases, trying to keep everyone online 24/7, people can't manage those hours, but want to still have all the items their friends have and they need to do fun things bossing/pking.
So the end result? They bot.
Multitude of problems with the game, despite this, and quitting many a times, I still find my way back to RS...