Having to put in work to login to RS3 protects the account owner. It's percieved as a benefit for the account owner.
Having to complete the captcha to login to the site (and sometimes, several times a session at random) hinders the user. The user has no percieved benefit from Captcha and hence no reason to praise it. No one goes "Oh this Captcha is stopping DDOS attacks against the authentication servers and thus is a benefit for the community." We don't care about Jagex nor the community, we care about ourseves.
Regardless of the benefits for Jagex, it doesn't benefit us. This might be unfair, but that's human psychology for you. Jagex aren't the only people who have to deal with users having unfair perceptions, and I'm sure they don't take it personally.
But the current implementation Jagex has is absolutely worse than other companies, because it seems the Captcha will randomly assault you even after you've already logged in, and then it'll deauthenticate your session, force you to enter your credentials again, and then mug you thrice.
Frankly, I preferred Google. The option better than Google was to remove captcha, not to replace it with a
percieved
worse one. (Who knows, perhaps by Jagex's own metrics it's doing great).
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Hmm