Random thought: Just noticed that your Linkify badge matches your silver forum "rank" on Lil Indsy and that sort of pleases me for some reason, ha!
Random thought 2: why did they even release such useless feature in the first place. There are more pressing matters on the forums, but no! Have to release a cosmetic show-off feature. That's top priority!
I think it's important to remember that the biggest recent forum updates were either done in some guy's lunch breaks or as a TAPP thing.
That means there is limited time and I expect it would be very hard to get front and backend devs together on the same tasks.
I'm sure we (as most forum users) would prioritize things differently. But these updates are actually more of an individual personal thing as opposed to a Jagex decision.
Meaning if the person who is putting their free time into an update likes a certain style or features, that's quite likely what we'll get. If what I'm saying is correct then I think that's understandable. I could be wrong though and maybe we were just tossed a bone, but I don't think that's the case.