Glad to see that you're fully against the additional rewards pool now. I like to think that I played a YUGE role in that!
But seriously...it's just a bad idea. It goes against Steemit, Inc's own stated KISS policy that they mentioned in the road map. Users already have a hard time learning and keeping up with everything else that's going on around here. Another rewards pool only makes it more complicated.
I'm hoping Inc. scraps this altogether and goes forward with the curve changes before anything else.
At this point I am willing to go with a modified hardfork that removes the comment/post split reward pool and also meaningfully mitigates the potential for late vote abuse with the 7-day payout schedule.