fishing and cooking is fine.  smithing and mining. now thats a pain haha

Yeah, but the main point is that it's a complete waste of resources. A lot of skills are.

Banking should be allowed, honestly.

We should limit it to 1 page, and dying should destroy the top 10 most valuable stacks of items in your bank. It is extremely hard and honestly not rewarding enough to do much of anything in Ultimate Iron Man (mining and smithing, fishing and cooking, to name two examples).

Ultimate Iron Man should, in one sense, only offer one additional challenge. That is: having items destroyed from your bank when you die, instead of no banking at all.

I disagree with this suggestion strongly. You're basically just saying get rid of ultimate iron man. There would be no distinction between your two proposed game modes because real talk: no one fucking dies outside of the wild unless they disconnect or are afk.

You talk about resources wasted, but that is not unique to ultimate iron man and can be seen in almost every skill.

Ultimate iron man is the most hardcore mode and you're suggesting to turn it into pussy shit. -1

Eh, not necessarily. There are reasons for my suggestion, such as the one above, but Ultimate should be changed to Hardcore if it is liked this much, and Ultimate would be my proposed idea, I suppose.

Maybe give ultimate iron men a backpack item which allows an additional 10 or so inventory items.

hell. no. seriously if you want to have a bank, go reg. thats an option, NOBODY is forcing you to do ultimate, it is your choice.
yes, it is hard as hell.
you think smithings a bitch? just think of herblaw.
this makes you actually think about what you are going to do.
wanna train? do it. fish up, cert some food, train near a certer.
wanna skill? high alch all your armor for those extra precious slots to hold the few extra items for xp/hour.
its ULTIMATE iron man. leave it ultimately difficult.

I am +1 for this, but sadly i do not see it happening.   Maybe instead of 1 whole page make it so you can only deposit items that can not be traded most of witch are quest items,  Dramen staff and glarial's Amulet for example.

Yes the word Ultimate implies it will be very hard but rs2 has many features that make it overall easier then it is here.
1. - armor, weapons amulets are placed in there own section
2. - Tool belts that hold supplies such as tinderbox, chisel, molds, ETC
3 - player owned homes, that have portal rooms ( free teleports ) workshop can obtain items such as (hammer, chisel, molds ETC)  and many other things.

Sorry to grave dig but is there a way for ultimate iron men to note and UN note

Ulti has an equip tab.. what more could you ask for?

-1 play regular ironman if you can't handle ulti