I get what you were saying but, the gold's standard in my opinion is right before the introduction of the grand exchange.. I don't want any other updates at all.
Yeh everyone has it's own interests. Imo, this is RS legacy in the make

everything is also opensource, so code is available in public. You could even host your own if you'd like or setup a test environment.
During these 4 months they also introcuded 2001 rare items, so in the weekend you'll get a chance to get a random rare in your inv

(this is code that's not in the legacy code, and isnt public)