If Kano thinks there is a way to cut down on the orphans (or do any other improvements), I would vote to increase the fees.
Some quick numbers as an example:
Say there are 2 orphans a month on average (the last month had 3).
Kano.is has had a total of 6 orphans since September 2014, so the average is more like 0.3 per month.
Right now, that is say $20,000 lost due to orphans (50 BTC ~ $400 each).
Think of it this way:
Total the luck percentage of the orphan block and the good block after, that would be what you should comparing to.
Looking at the orphans that way:
2.686% + 97.620% = 100.620%
27.037% + 142.268% = 169.305%
44.215% + 85.159% = 129.374%
94.272% + 161.931% = 256.203%
55.342% + 72.247% = 127.589%
143.912% + 134.764% = 278.676%
None of those are really all that bad.
There has been about 37 blocks with a higher % than the highest one of those. And yet the pools total luck % is still 108%. The few orphans have had very little impact on anything. Spending money on reducing the number of orphans will not yield any significant increase on productivity. Yes it is something that is important, but unfortunately not as important as pure random luck. And I'm pretty sure Kano and ck are always working on this.
13 blocks in ~25 HR and 25 MIN = one tiered kano when the payments start going out.... 
