Small pools are relevant regardless what people's interpterion is. Likely most have a high time preference for payout from a pool and mine the "top" 4-6 in overall hashrate, missing the nuances of mining completely with scoring like F/PPS if just starting out, though after market research we find an abundance of ignorance in this regard from a majority of large mining corporations.
Most are unaware that a projected average blockfind cadence with about (~) 130-160PH "should/could/would" net a blockfind about every ten days, considering network statistics as of this second. Presenting these metrics to board members who have never mined, know little about bitcoin outside of a speculative "asset", and even less about PoW blockchain propagation, settle easily on $0.xxxx/th in revenue forecasting.
LP is running but likely for obvious reasons to some, we're not "shilling" our pool here. Or target is "mid sized" mining operators with our limited payout availability due to FW restrictions from a certain asic manufacture. We'd hope for 2PH-50PH in "commitment" from interested parties to stride along the 70PH we have on our roster waiting for a reasonable expectation in "days" to blockfind.
Thank you for the interest, and thanks philip for your candor in our stead.