Hi Matthijs,
that’s really sad to hear. I think that, from the beginning, the staking did not work as expected: Pools with 6% share created 11% of the blocks while many small pools didn’t get the chance to produce one single block. If there is a random number generator behind this, it should be checked and corrected. In the meantime this looks better but ZZZ still creates twice as much blocks as they should concerning their percentage of the overall stake.
I don’t think that reducing your pool operator rewards makes it any better. The problem is that the standard user delegates to the uppermost pool in the ranking of Daedalus and this is not necessaryly the best pool for him. The Daedalus ranking must take the saturation into consideration, otherwise there should be better no ranking at all.
By the way: As I wrote here I think they reduced the saturation level to 0.5% of the total stake which would allow more small pools to grow. If someone could confirm or negate, this would be fine.