The pool is is as lucky as it should be, in fact luck since this difficulty started is +1.7%. How do I know? Because I did the actual stats using real math:
They are not "rants". I have mined on bitcoins.lc almost since day one and never had a single issue before.
I'm fully aware of the overall pool luck which is normal.
The troubles didn't begin at the start of 1.56m difficulty. It began maybe a week ago.
You might be mining just for fun.
Some people can't risk instability and 0.5+BTC losses per round (will you mine at this hash rate not knowing whether a long block is actually 3 different blocks when you need currency to keep your mining operations going in the short term?)
This is not some game.
Bringing up potential issues like downtime, missing blocks etc. so far have all proven to be correct so you have nothing to complain about.
Jine has in fact admitted those issues mostly.