Yea that’s why the game’s player count fell off a cliff the more they turned it into a generic quest treadmill with an endgame of nothing but dailies and instances, because people don’t like to grind. Ignore the 1 million+ subscriptions Old School Runescape has as a 20 year old game involving nothing but grinding.
TBH a 1.0 relaunch of ToS might actually get me to play it again beyond a week after an update. For all the problems it had, at least the game was a lot more unique than what they turned it into.