Edwin

It was inevitable - the moment people make in-game wealth and real life wealth interchangeable, the distinction becomes insignificant. He was very well robbing him of a few grand. This wouldn't have happened if Jagex actually had a coherent plan to combat rwt. I'd be surprised if they even internally acknowledge it.

Probably not, at least doing them efficiently; I'm pretty sure the cost of cannonballs outweighs any kind of profit gained. There's also the fact that they really don't drop anything significant besides effigies. Good luck, Suomi.

I haven't done any testing on other skills, but the update made doing teaks without low alch more practical. Since the left click option is light, you can left click any number of logs within 4 ticks and they'll all be dropped; as long as you click the tree within 4 ticks, you can essentially drop any number of logs if you're quick enough. They really should make the toolbelt optional (or at least removable), at any rate, and "the spirit of the game" is no true justification for why this isn't the case.

There's pretty much a universal consensus against the hiscores update; I haven't heard anything positive about it that didn't come directly from Jagex, at any rate. I just hope Jagex stops shooting themselves in the foot when they just so recently got a huge victory over bots.