With all things equal, non PPS pool would pay more in the long run, I believe that's somewhat undebatable, however, I disgree with this statment


Using a PPS pool only spares you the payout variance, however, mining in general is all about variance, the problem miners face is that fact that everything they pay for in their mining operations is valued in fiat, that's a greater value variance than what different pool sizes/payout scheme would cause, most traditional businesses don't operate this way, you can always gauge your expenses to your income and follow the market, with BTC, you can't just cut down on your expenses too easily, everything is directly related to how much fiat you can get for the BTC you mine, it doesn't matter if you pay your power bill daily or monthly, as a miner you are always limited by that factor.

Another point that recently emerged and helped the large pools grow larger is fees trends, like the once that happened around the halving, large pools have a higher probability of catching most of those trends than small pools, if there are 10 fat blocks starting from the next block, Antpool is likely to find 3 of them, Foundry another 3, the other small pools are a lot less unlikely to hit any of them, obviously, if they do, then miners of those small pools would hit the jackpot, but that's a lot of BTC to be risking to variance which is why most miners perfect to stick to large pools, not just because they pay in PPS.