Why the Secret Spell Scroll system would have never worked.

Eh, maybe for F2Ps. WoW recently had its 7th year anniversary and it still actively has 10.2mil subs. The only "hacking" in that game is just underground mining / herbing and AFK botters, which are pretty much non-existent.

The same can be said for runescape, yet people still despise that for some reason or another. And Jagex has made so many wonderful updates to the game that nobody really has any right to complain.

But the only thing most people can do now these days is to just join in on the exploiting in the smallest way possible, and hope (Yeah you really don't need to do that.) that they don't get caught. Since if you DON'T exploit, you get left in the dust with no way of recovery unless you start to exploit.