Your community is quite miniscule in terms of people who actually follow and want pre-eoc, if you were to check reddit and other communities theres thousands of players striving for a proper remake of this era done properly. Longevity for a PRE-EOC always involves a partial amount of the community wanting something that's OSRS because it's been meta for the past few years - which leads to other sheep wanting the exact same thing. I get you want to add the items that don't exactly represent an item in PRE-EOC but you are diminishing your whole project as a a 614 by going against this era. You can add heaps in terms of longevity towards content, or upgrading and reworking existing pre-eoc content exactly how OSRS is doing it now.
By no means take this as an insult or direct attack towards your team or project, it's just MY personal thoughts on this.
I won't be haah, I'll be taking over this era.