@GrahamsNumberPlus1 I sense your frustration at your lack of reward for hard work. I agree that things are not configured properly at present.
I think one thing that can be changed easily is to lower the min Ada fee from 340 down to something like 30 as proposed by IOHK’s @Colin_Edwards in this thread:
It won’t get you paid more initially but will give you more ability to attract delegators.
On my website I say the following:
I do not recommend you stake with Terminada pool yet because the protocol does not allow setting the fixed fee any lower than 340 Ada.
With a fixed fee of 340 Ada you will lose too much of your rewards to fees until the pool size is over 10 million Ada.
I am hoping that enough community support builds to change this min fee parameter soon.
In the longer term, there are proposals to redesign the staking + pledging benefit metrics like that proposed by @Michael.Liesenfelt at: