I've posted this on countless threads before. The game isnt ruined, infact for players of ohter mmorpgs like rappelz where the only "skills" are similar to the new "abilities" the game is better, now its like the games i love, but with the skills of runescape.
ur bitching about better graphics? i mean it seems to me that your saying they are better, and u dont like it. what do you do, buy a xbox360 and bitch cuz u liked the graphics on the NES better?
the ability bar is useful. once you get used to the new style of gameplay, its funner. Learn to mash skills with combat, it actually makes combat faster and more enjoyable. however, I am terribly sorry if you only want to play a game where you click on a mob and beat off until its dead, I guess the EoC just isnt for you.
More people quit over jagex removing the wildy, so obviously this isnt such a bad move. infact I only personally know 2 people that have quit due to EoC and I am in a maxed combat clan ranked in the top 10 on clan hiscorea, so the older players, including myself clearly like the EoC.
It makes power-skilling faster. Any skill your powerleveling that you want to "drop" the item your acquiring such as cutting logs or mining concentrated gold, you can set the log/ore to the action bar, spam hit the # on ur keyboard and drop the entire invo in a matter of seconds and you dont evn have to click the rock/tree again, you just continue cutting/mining. pretty useful.
I personally just think anyone who will give the EoC a chance (5 hours+ of gameplay) will begin to enjoy the game alot, maybe even more than they did before the update.
simple tips: mash skills in combat. put items on the action bar for skilling.
As for the graphics, if they are THAT big of a problem, go to your settings, graphic options, put the graphics on low and wallah! no more "better" graphics!