Why don't modern mmorpgs take a few hints off runescape..?

I mean I may be wrong some might, but I won't be buying my first one until around july. Although I have noticed that games like WoW, age of conan, SWTOR and the newest diablo look awesomely fun, but they all seem to require too much thought. Like sometimes I just wanna sit by a virtual river with friends and cut down trees or cook. I might just want to mine some resources and sell them for fast cash instead of going out to grind my character all day. So far the only MMORPG I've seen like that is runescape. Does anyone know of a new age one with great graphics that does this..? I mean runescape even with shoddy grapics and boring gameplay has managed to keep an enormous cult following just because of those features. So it's clearly doing something right?