As your thread title indicates this topic is regarding RuneScape (RS3), rather than Old School RuneScape, it has been moved to the RuneScape General Forum.
Meanwhile RS3 wildy is actually very alive after the Wilderness Reborn Opt-in update. We see plenty of actions in the hourly Flash Events coming with Wildy Reborn.
Plenty of players skilling and killing in the Wildy they have never been able to ever since 2001.
No, so just disable the pvp in the wilderness. Wilderness isn't dead. But PvP is. Minigames, wildy, it's just not an important part of the game anymore.
Obviously RS3 Wildy Flash Events are extremely popular. Flash Events and D&Ds are the new minigames in 2023.
As for pvp. Wildy PvP is now more focused by actually pvpers via opt-in, instead of random pkers looking feasting on skillers that still happy a lot at places like Warbands, Abyss Runecrafters and demonic skulled skillers.
Actually there are more pvpers and clans doing Crucible.