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Partially true, but you're overlooking something: people who are currently playing, are already satisfied (to some extent at least) with the game. If no changes were made, they'd hardly get mad about it, because of the previous sentence being true. On the other hand, you're right that rereleasing the original versions would cause upset, because the satisfaction of the older players, who care about the historical value, would get changed to dissatisfaction.

As someone who has experienced it both ways, that's just how it is. I've missed out on many discontinued holiday items, as an example the santa suit: would I've wanted it? Absolutely. Am I upset that I can't get it? Nope, because it's an optional set of items that doesn't impact the actual gameplay in any way, and because I know that it benefits the game more to reward loyalty than to treat it like disposable trash. Respectively, I've also obtained some discontinued holiday items, as an example the Christmas wand: would I get upset if it was rereleased exactly like it was first released? Absolutely, because I care about the historical value and because Jagex set the precedent that it would be discontinued, so because there'd be no truly important reason to bring back the originals (refer to the part about optional), it'd set a fatal precedent for us (players) that an authority like Jagex could be allowed to do whatever it pleases, without it being held responsible for its actions and decisions.

Now, it's true that pleasing everyone never works, but what you'd want to do here is focus on the playerbase that has the outliers excluded from it (the outliers being the players who are elitists, and the players who have grown bitter towards elitists). Pick a compromise that makes good use of the discontinued holiday items, such as by making an alternate/improved version of the old for the new/returning players to enjoy, whilst still keeping the distinction between the two clear, for the old players to enjoy the historical value.

It's honestly not that complicated in the concept level; the harder part is communicating with Jagex, since they typically don't listen to us on the RS3 side.