Farming pools is mainly a discussion about managing incoming resources, I think you are trying to bring in a different topic about how to manage departing resources. Departing resources is definitely a worthwhile topic, but is probably better to discuss it in the multiple Safe Networks topic or in a new topic about managing departure of resources.
edit: I think you have raised important points about the departure of resources, I’m not trying to sweep it under the rug here, just I want to try to keep this topic on track and focused on how to best manage incoming resources. If you feel I’ve misunderstood your point please do clarify further.
Yeah I feel your latter question here is probably what would happen, pool operators would mainly end up managing and judging their underlings and would end up as kind of a meta-node in a lot of ways.
Yes, certainly farming pools would not be a problem in the technical sense. However they increase centralization and undermine the benefits that node participation brings to the governance of the network. So to me farming pools seem to be a ‘suboptimal solution’ rather than a ‘technically incorrect solution’, and one that hopefully can be avoided if possible.