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Our business model uses a 5% house edge to fund a faucet, rewards program and lottery. When people ask about reducing the house edge I ask them which of those things we should remove to pay for it.
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How about all of them? I´d rather play on a site with a 1 % fixed house edge without
any of the mentioned features than at a site with a 5 % house edge that pays for these features.
agree! lower the house edge to 2-3% and remove all referral commissions
but keep reward point program running for the sole benefit of the user himself
I bet our favourite
"thread's fan" 
will start screaming a different tone,
he will start demanding wetsuit to put back the referral commission system