I can understand what you are saying.

A second pool would absolutely be helpful, as would a second exchange.  You don't want a single point of failure in either situation.

Exchanges absolutely do get hacked, but that shouldn't be your concern.  You have to get past the first few growing pains if you want this thing to take off. A successful coin will need to be accepted by a larger audience, otherwise it's going to be relegated to the bin of thousands of other dead/almost dead coins. People aren't going to do the right thing... just to do the right thing.  Help this coin get more acceptance... the people don't necessarily need to know they are doing the right thing... it will just be a byproduct of participating in the project.  Does that make sense?