I was using monerod.org, but decided to go to herominers because its hashrate is higher and so payouts should be more steady. I am watchful of contributing to centralization though so made sure it was still small. Herominers is ~3% of the hashrate so i don’t feel bad about pointing my xmrig-proxy their.
I know i could do it. I just dont want to. I am watching and if my pool ever gets large i will switch to a smaller one. Its not like im pointing my hashpower at supportxmr, nanopool, or hashvault. Its 3% of the total hashrate and therefore nothing to be concerned over.