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The loyalty point poll would've failed with the better balanced 75% threshold, and the OSRS poll for untradeable discontinued items would've actually passed had the poll been an actual poll and not a poll for gathering information only (and tradeable discontinued items were extremely close to passing technically as well). The latter is also much more up-to-date than the loyalty point poll.

And where is the "further proof"? If people were really that upset back then, why doesn't anybody talk about it anymore except for you in this thread? When some major backlash occurs in the game, people will still talk about it years later, but you can literally never hear people talk about the 2016 xmas event these days because people didn't actually care and the amount of people who were upset were quite small.

Mhm, which is why people have also forgotten about such backlashes as EoC and MTX, the two of which are much older (2012) than the 2016 xmas event?

...nevermind, people still regularly complain about them to this day. When people truly care about something, they won't forget about it. Hence why those two are still remembered to this day, while the backlash you claimed to have happened is nowhere else to be found but here, in this thread only.

You don't seem to understand that when someone has no personal reason to vote against something, then they're going to vote yes, especially if the game is basically telling them "want more stuff available to you? yes/no". People who voted against had reason to do it to protect what they cared about, which made Jagex realize that when the "majority" for yes wasn't clear-cut like it would be for an OSRS poll to pass, it'd still piss off more people than what it would offer to others.

Frankly, it worries me that if Jagex did a poll on something that would actually affect the game balance, and after polling it successfully realized that it'd be a detriment to the game e.g. by causing a major spike in inflation, that someone like you would tell Jagex not to revert the poll's outcome just because the poll already happened. It should go without saying that common sense is more important to listen to (hence why Jagex ignores polls on OSRS when game integrity is at risk) than a poll that could easily be flawed in a way that you don't yourself realize. At least if you don't wish to upset more people than who would truly care about e.g. getting their hands on some outdated cosmetics.