Regardless of the downtimes I'm quite happy. I've resorted to checking up on my farm every couple of days and so long as my wallet occassionally has a dozen coins deposited I'm happy . 1.58% stale on this latest payment round, fine by me.
I suspect we will still have some bad days looking at the LP randomness, I have checked on most accounts and even with issues users have allways earn well above 100% PPS , on average I would suspect with all the issues the actual earnings after rejects/downtimes would be in the 104-106% payout range at 100% efficiency.
Now taking that into consideration, even if you could get 0% stales/rejects at any of the other pools you would be best of at 100% unless they also have fees.
I just want to assure people that I havnt given up and wont until there is perfect smoothness eventually no matter how long it takes.
So its all good in an ugly way