I understand that you want it to be closer to the original, but times have changed and I don't think most people can adapt to the way experience is gained. Most people have either played RuneScape or another private server recently with either faster ways to get experience, or higher experience rate. Because of that, people begin to grow impatient when training on the older, slow methods of training that were the best at this time. Because of this, a boost in experience is almost necessary to keep an active player base.
I hope you understand what I'm getting at here. I don't think having 2x experience makes so much of a difference in the remake factor as most people think it does. I hope you understand and still want to play even though it'll be 2x experience.