OSR exists to to serve their legacy userbase it feels like, who are older and therefore more likely to purchase subscriptions (so they feel it's worthwhile from

OSR exists to to serve their legacy userbase it feels like, who are older and therefore more likely to purchase subscriptions (so they feel it's worthwhile from a business POV) but also more likely to be put off by the level of microtransactions they wanted to put in RS3. So after some very vocal criticism, the "by vote only" system was basically put in because it was the only way what became the OSR community could trust them.