Were pkers always this bad at the game?

Been on the runecraft grind, and on the times I even see a would be player killer in the first place, they're usually using bug abuse to hide under a ball/flag cause jagex won't fix it.

Even with that, they almost never manage to get a kill if you aren't half asleep, anticipate as you run to mage, immortality/barricade to almost guarantee they fail 9/10 times.