But without pools using 0.9.0 it won't matter

They'll probably be treated like no-fee TX by pools who have upgraded to 0.9.0 - at least now they have a chance to propagate where previously they'd only propagate if they matched the strict rules for no-fee tx. It's really experimental at this stage to get them into a block because even bitcoin-qt in core sets the old 0.0001 fee as default to send tx.