One must face the hard facts - there are almost no miners left to attract. Less than 5% of the network is now miners that can actually choose a pool of their own. The bulk of the hashrate is from large farms that have zero interest in moving their hashrate. Trying to attract hashrate from the remaining miners who are loyal to their chosen pool - often for reasons that make no sense apart from the fact that they've always mined there and think it's somehow good - is virtually impossible. Temporary cloud miners renting hashrate at a virtual perpetual loss is of no usefulness to long term pool hashrate. Thus the market for extra pools is virtually non-existent. There is no sign that this is improving with time, only getting worse.
Yes you have a valid point -ck, maybe I am the only one that has an issue with these larger pools getting larger and gaining a huge percentage of the network. Or pools that spv mine and the likes. Yes Nexious may fail on the ideas it was founded on but atleast I can go to sleep at night knowing I've tried to make a difference.
It saddens me but I guess everyone has to face the music eventually.