For those who feel it's a terribly performing pool, wasn't it essentially created during a bear market, and then sustained mainly during a deep bear market? I feel that to be the case, while unsurprisingly few were investing ETH or any external funds into the game. FWIW, I was using the pool along through this time, and with a significant amount of funds.
Bear market performance is generally not the pool's fault, and definitely not a fair shot for judging its value. Many other LPs are between in-game or HIVE assets people slosh around, so they'll naturally perform better. I think those hold significantly less value once real money tries to get in the game.
This was a true external ETH-facing pool (and key to connecting ETH and HIVE assets). This is ultimately where real money can flow in -- versus extremely micro-cap internal LPs that others want to maintain -- presumably because they can keep sloshing their internal funds around for yield. Ironically, we need external pools to be stronger instead...
Removing the incentives here will also simply let those hang out to dry in it in hopes that SPS miraculously catches up and passes ETH price appreciation... all risk and no reward -- just to try to break even. Feels like a bait and switch. People made significant investment decisions based on the reasonable expectation that at least "some" type of SPS yield was issued, not "none" now, if the DAO doesn't support it.
I also interpret this underperformance is a testament to how little our player pool was willing to invest in the game using ETH-based funds during the bear market. Not the pool's fault. In reality, we can't expect lots of new players during this time. Realistically, this probably won't be the same during a real bull market, where price action and marketing efforts are going to drive inflows of legitimate capital.
Wouldn't it be ideal to keep this pool strong and incentivized for that? Killing one of the funnels and hurting those who got destroyed with major impermanent loss from the onset, just because some random person decides to have you put up a pre-proposal that screams "save SPS inflation" since it wasn't a high performer during a bear market. Most people aren't in the pool so they will think for their own bags. Seems like we're simply going to shoot ourselves in the foot. As one of the top card holders in the game -- it makes me need to figure out how to start extracting funds for ETH versus putting more in.
Loyalty should be rewarded. Allowing others to be financially punished after having the reasonable assumption that yield would not be reduced to literally "none," is infuriating.
Thanks for your reply.
RE: SPS Governance Proposal - Reduce SPS:WETH Incentives by 50%