I'm not sure they'd hype something like this up so much just for it to be complete lies.
This isn't just behind the scenes banning people, this is a visual thing too with the dragon hand. If the players don't see this working, they will begin to question the validity of what jagex tells them.
I think it's naive at this point to not take this seriously.
There are still 1000's of people who use autoclickers and typers which can be detected, having these accounts going through Botany Bay will be visual enough for players.















