I went back and tried to find it but I think the jmod deleted it.
Im pretty confident it was /u/Jagex_Wolf in a couple different comments, one of them I remember being specifically - https://old.reddit.com/r/2007scape/comments/bzf8ae/unplayable/eqsutvw/?context=3
posted within that post, but I can't be sure now.
I'd be curious if anyone else saw it though.
I don't think I've ever said that, apologies.
From a personal opinion I generally don't mind updating stuff for ironmen if they desire it.
Some things are meant to be difficult for ironmen. Some things are just silly. For example, collecting buckets of sand was something I worked on specifically as I completely agreed hopping worlds shouldn't be a meta method for anything. I'd at least always like some viable in game method that isn't world hopping for things to exist in most occasions.