I'm thinking that if.....
....if I am reading TheBlackDoge correctly
You run custom pool software - correct
Then getting DRK software to run on your system would be your issue and not a DRK issue
Introducing a gratuitous incompatibility that makes it harder for pools to mine your coin is a DRK issue as well.
Pools are an adaptation to decentralised crypto? Adapt, n'est-ce pas?