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Even though the poll isn't for RS3, it shows what would happen on RS3 too; OSRS started out with the premise that all holiday rewards would always be brought back each year, and the playerbase was fine with it because it was made clear from the start. Now though, you can see OSRS demonstrating what happens when you pick the option of always re-releasing the rewards: people get bored of them. Who cares about them when they're always brought back and their value goes back to zero? As someone who has played both games, I've seen that even though OSRS players hate RS3 in many ways, there's one thing the majority of them still respect RS3 for: having discontinued items like partyhats, bunny ears etc which are actually meaningful because they're discontinued. > )

Not only that, but when there are no discontinued cosmetics like partyhats for the filthy rich people to invest into, the actually useful items, which regular players want to obtain, get invested into instead, making them much more difficult to obtain than if all that money was invested into discontinued cosmetics instead. You can see it by comparing the top tier weapons of the two games for example; twisted bow (1 year 8 months old content) still costs 6b RS3 gp (1 gp in OSRS is worth about 5 gp in RS3 atm, comparing bond prices/moneymaking methods), while staff of sliske is only about 1.4b RS3 gp (6 months older content than the twisted bow, but staff of sliske dropped below max cash over 6 months ago already, so it doesn't matter). This is because items like the twisted bow are popular items to invest into in OSRS, but Jagex could change that with tradeable discontinued items, and the players know it.

Certain things are universal truths though, regardless of what game you're talking about; increased supply leads to decreased demand, and decreased demand leads to the good/service dropping in price/value. > )