Users have universally rejected pre-mining, regardless of the proportion. The goal is to eliminate the need for a centralized component such as XRP, not change its payout structure.
A lot of people are paying big bucks for ripples, they don't seem to care about it... (I don't understand why)
Some people paid big bucks for SolidCoins. Ripple is also vastly more effective at hiding its seedy underbelly. They have good PR people.