I still think the random box is the best way to remove raids items without heavily disrupting the economy while still giving somewhat of a compensation, items going into the box could be discussed (I'm not suggesting we add bandos boots and dragon square shields...). The other option would be to give blood money/some other currency scaling to the raid item values but I don't think that's an idea because the market would get flooded with elysians etc.
I think it's important to remove the existing raids items to encourage people who have never done raids before to discover new content and enjoy it, with far less incentive I'd be surprised if raids took off, especially with it being primarily a team activity.
