Are the transfer nodes getting rewarded? The poll seems biased in itself. Somewhere down the line , if we see ,why does the poll even consist the option of a "No". Since people are at false impression of the consequences of a "YES".
I cannot easily parse much of your comment, but to your question, sadly 'not really.'
When I got started in Bitcoin I thought they were to be. Not sure why I thought that other than that it would make a lot of sense in promoting a widely distributed system. I'm glad I made a mistake here else I probably would have lost interest in Bitcoin right away.
Transfer nodes may at some point be rewarded insofar as they can autonomously verify that they are not being cheated rather than needing to rely on others (as does Multibitch which, if network traffic were subject to ISP level packet filterer, would be highly susceptible to sybil attacks I expect.) They also may be able to operate on tainted coins as the operator chooses if coin tainting rears it's head and cannot be beaten back like it has over the last few years (often in association with the XT guy Mr. Hearn.)
If I were designing a system a share of the transaction fee rewards would be distribute to at least the last few of the transfer nodes which delivered it. There would also be a concept of 'connection value'. So, one AWS node passing a message to another AWS node would be worth almost nothing. An AWS node passing a message to a radio linked node in outer Mongolia would be a very high value connection. The hope would be that this would foster the growth of a very robust 'neural net' type structure.