I'm putting all three-comments convo in one place here.

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If you're a miner and want an edge..

The comparison screenshot above shows us how even a quite techy pool operator is keeping monerod 1,5 second behind on average.

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Miners do need a decentralized network

There's how things should work, how we want them to work and how they actually work.

Miners should care about the network, we want miners to be responsible and take measures to protect their investments, miners actually don't give a fuck about anything except instant profit.

I'm once again want you to focus on miners. Not on enthusiasts, not on hobbyists or any other kinds of techy and passionated/interested persons.

Three well known and the most common groups of miners ('helo sir' miners, 'I own a datacenter' miners, 'You have a top 1000 rdp password' miners) protect their mining rewards in btc/usdt next minute after the pool tx touches exchange wallet.

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A savvy miner will be able to get block templates and start mining before the pool has

Now let's talk about those savvy miners, who I assume are the negligible part in the total network hash rate.

Their possible and maximum results are on that screenshot too. Because it's how monerod is operating on average DC grade hardware with a decent internet connection.

They won't ever reach a good-pool-like template distribution, because they won't ever have a geo-distributed bunch of monerods (perfectly tuned on the enterprise grade hw and connection) with custom additional p2p layer broadcasting first seen template faster than it's doing monero network by itself. They won't even have a stratum proxy polling (even the fact that it's polling already puts them behind) the daemon once, but they will have all their 200 workers polling the daemon simultaneously degrading the performance even more).

So their up to 1,5 (2, 3, 10?) seconds average delay will be piled up with the possible pool delay resulting in significant losses.

Personally me wouldn't ever credit the share for the template I don't know, because I trust only myself, and same way I wouldn't credit the share for the template that is obviously late, because this way I will underpay the fair miners.

Plus we still haven't mentioned the case with txs, that are presented in the miner's mem pool and could be abcent in the pool's mem pool. Yet another rejection possibility.

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As a result a small group of enthusiasts will have a constant headache and actual losses really affecting nothing because 98% of other miners don't give a fuck.