Even Jagex themselves must have thought the requirement was a bit too extreme (as it was 32 weeks no matter what) which led to the idea. They probably thought people wouldn't be happy with losing their capes for 8 months but clearly they were wrong.
It's basically just a battle between those wanting the cape to be rarer than it is and those who just want to get their capes, not caring about its rarity.
Orrr they could just stop adding it to requirements of comp cape. It's pretty good at ignoring content which should be a requirement, so this shouldn't be a problem.
Yea im just thinking strawpolls can be manipulated and rigged alot, i could send it to irl friends on fb and be like "vote this" and ill give u a dollar if u get what i mean