Don't argue against something I never said. Every miner should be running their own node(s).

If you think you can set up a solo mining node for yourself locally that performs as well as that from the one I set up and avoid the 0.5% fee then by all means do. I provide a service and many many people have found it invaluable. Since I wrote the software that you are mining with and the pool software you are mining to and modify the bitcoind software of this pool it's fair to say I speak with some authority when I say it is NOT not comparable to mining solo at home. But as I said, it's your prerogative if you wish to try and recreate the performance of this pool at home - but it is also not your "responsibility" to try and steer people away from this service if they wish to use it.