RuneScape: Dragonwilds has gathered its ingredients but still lacks flavor

I didn't come to RuneScape: Dragonwilds as a complete RuneScape virgin, despite missing the boat on RuneScape back in the '00s. I've played a little bit of Old School RuneScape, and was incredibly absorbed in the Jagex-published Melvor Idle. I'm not exactly unfamiliar with how the game's sense of progression works, and it makes sense that a survival spin-off could have worked. Could. Fundamentally, there's nothing egregiously wrong with RuneScape: Dragonwilds. It is paced much like other surviva