If it were possible to design a proof of work system that effectively eliminated the ability to pool mining would that be an improvement or not?
this would bring up the barrier to entry for mining bitcoin several orders of magnitude. not good.
Yeah. I don't use P2Pool but that is how I would mine if my power was cheap. I want it to grow, and hopefully be copied with other implementations so that little guys have a choice. The concept however is beautiful IMHO.