I just am cynical about Jagex's willingness to spend money in this space. Ever since they've been owned by venture capital, everything is penny pinched; it needs to have an obvious return on investment.

We as players normally only see the content developers in interviews, and they're often folks that don't even have proper computer science degrees or training. Jagex internally for years has hired largely unskilled workers into their QA department and then promoted them into "developer" positions that work with RuneScript.

I'm fairly confident the engine team was a skeleton crew (and one split among developing iOS, Android, and Desktop clients) until the last few years when it became apparent at least some investment into the engine on the server side/more broadly was necessary.

I looked into joining their engine team at one point, and then promptly walked away when I saw the payscale.

Basically, I see no reason to give them slack; it's actually a bit counter productive in my view. The community should be stern that Jagex should address their issues rather than running from them and constantly blaming "yesterday's Jagex" for why "today's Jagex" is making bad decisions, can't do XYZ, etc