feel strange about RS 2007

Your f2p model was wildly successful in 2007, so why wouldn't it be now? I understand that you asked members their opinion first because they directly fund the game, but free players still provide you with income through ads. Adding new servers would cost more money, sure, but if you don't bother to find out how many free players would play then you're potentially losing a great deal of potential funds. Do you honestly think you'd be where you are now if p2p was your primary business model, runescape accounts for sale competing with WoW?

Now I know you're going to mention that the main game is still free, but I can vouch for at least 20 players that I personally know who would rather play 2007 than the modern game. To be honest, I think you're restricting RS2007 because it would quickly become the more popular game thus making Jagex look foolish for implementing features like GE and EoC. Then again, maybe you want to force "free" players to deal with microtransactions selling runescape accounts in the modern game on the off-chance they'll toss some cash your way.

tl;dr: EA won Worst Company in America because of the same business practices you use.