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I pointed this out for you already earlier ITT, but Jagex realized that having a 50% yes threshold for stuff like this to pass was too controversial, so they increased it to 75% even for RS3: as an example, the ninja fixes survey #2 poll in 2018 required 75% yes votes for the stuff listed in it to pass, whereas the loyalty point poll took place as far back as 2014. It's outdated to imply that the 75% yes threshold is just an OSRS thing, because it's not.

The 75% yes threshold simply works better, because it ensures that whatever changes/content is polled to be done, the vast majority is convinced it's good and thus it's much more likely that as many consequences as possible have been thought of. Having a 50-74% majority still leaves a massive opposition, even if it's smaller than the 50-74% majority.

You don't want to hear it, but the loyalty point poll didn't get 59% yes votes because people adamantly wanted the discontinued items -- it got that percentage because there was no penalty for people without those items to vote no . When you lose out on nothing by voting yes, why vote no, even if you don't particularly care? E.g. if the players who voted yes would have been forced to buy a past holiday item with loyalty points, I guarantee you many would've either not voted or voted no, because there are tons of cosmetics in the game already, and loyalty points are much more usefully spent on auras.

I love how you told Draco to stop spreading false information, whilst you're doing a great job with it yourself: untradeable discontinued items would have passed the poll in OSRS, if the poll hadn't been a mere information gathering poll.

Here, I'll link the poll for you:
https://oldschool.runescape.wiki/w/Poll:Holiday_Events_Opinion_Poll

Now, go look at those numbers: only 23.9% voted no for untradeable discontinued items, which is less than the 25% no needed to fail a poll. For tradeable discontinued items, only 25.4% voted no, so it would've still failed by 0.4%, but it would've been very close to passing. In fact, with the 50% threshold, the one that you're seemingly supporting here, even tradeable discontinued items would've passed the poll in OSRS.

Also, to be clear: the loyalty point poll was held in 2014, and the holiday event poll was held in the beginning of September 2018. That's a massive difference in how relevant the data is, and the most recent data shows that Runescape players prefer to have discontinued holiday items.