that's retarded, sorry. It's the minority who are making the decisions whether or not to accept turmoil and 30+ defence, it's the ranks in clans like EoP Cp and FOE who decide for the majority i.e their member bases whether it will then be acceptable for them, in a nutshell clan leaderships have ruined and abused an obviously OP MIDLEVEL ORIENTATED update to their own ends in the process, killing the pure community.
clans who 'make themselves their own' as you put are main clans, not what pure clans should be which is specialist, if you want to look at it this way I'll gladly start apping clans with my 122 instead of a 73, because obviously it's their clan they can accept me with 92 defence just aswell with 1 because they want to, yours is a flawed argument friend.
What is retarded?
The minority aren't the deciding factor of the pure community. If the members in those clans wanted the clan to accept 1 defence only then that would be the requirement to join and those people that joined would not level defence. Understand?
People make pure clans not to follow another clan but to compete with similar types of clans but at the same time be unique themselves they follow their own rules and standards based on what their members want and what their leadership decides in right.
The majority of the clans that accept 30 defence are the HPC's because they are the well developed clans of pure community. Those clans have been here for more than half a decade. There are people in those clans that have been in runescape a lot longer, Including myself.
People have always complained about defence and to be quite honest the people that are complaining don't know a thing. 20 defence was a pure in rsc and was very popular during 02-07 in Multi pking at varrock and solo in single and at castle.
Iniatate appeared on the scene along with defenders and this brung about 20-25 defence pures from mistakes and also the fact those people wanted bonuses to be able to fight people their combat in the wild.
1 defence maxed fails unless you are fighting pure clans.
30 defence maxed with turmoil is fun and is good in both scenarios whether it be solo pking or multi pking. Why do you think maxed pures always leave the pure scene? Or have other accounts that they use more often than their pures? -.-.... Bottom line is people play for fun and they will do whatever they can to have fun.