I feel like that would mess the economy up even more. Why pay real money when you can just use moneymaking methods to pay for your skilling/armor/etc? I think that would just be a greedy move for Jagex.
Lol, we're invited to come along!? That's hilarious. I'm glad they're actually doing something about this, I get so frustrated trying to train when these stupid bots make my trees/rocks/etc disappear. :(