You are most certainly right that we will most likely never all agree on what should be done with the reward pool. Even though I am a relatively new user and some people that have been here longer may disregard my opinion - I feel a lot of what goes on here is fair. Yes some changes will be made with Fork 20 but something is obviously working for Steem to continue to show success with more users and price.
People that sincerely put out good content and ACTUALLY engage with users are awarded as follows. To be fair I am also looking forward to performance improvements for Fork 20 too.
Also for the record I've never heard of that onion trick lol!