I understand those who want to use a proxy :
They want (at best) to see a open source miner, or (most common) are greedy and don't want to give 5% of their hashrate in payment for the development of the software.
More, some don't want to pay a fee because the dev made money (actually, made XRM and also other cryptonote (don't forget BCN/XDN/QCN etc..) - don't forget too that many user use minergate, you don't know how much Claymore did there..and i think it's huge)
but..
Getting paid for his work is normal. None of you work for free right ?
But the amount is disturbing.
As said before, 5% is a lot. I think at first Claymore put 5% without knowing the amount he will make, and after, no way to lower it, especially because after some time, some pools pay only a part to his address (and, sorry, but it's stealing, even if you give the amount back to miners) and also proxy. Btw, proxy won't work with minergate (not a wallet address as login/pass)
If you are a dev, and if you spend time to make a program and support it, it's normal to get paid for it. Nobody complain about fees on pool, and the amount gained that way is huge too. Ok, they have hardware renting, support to do etc.. some huge work ok..just like developping and making support for a software...because pools "only take 1 to 2% of fees (and there is no way to bypass it..)
But cryptoworld is for the whole majority of people a matter of fair and open source. Making "too much" money with it is like giving control of bitcoin and other crypto to banks.
Another problem is that in miners' mind, too much amount of any money give you too much control on this money and people will claim that you greedly dumped it and it's you're fault if all cryptonote coin are too low
If i were you, i'll set up a pool and make a new version of the miner (with lower fee) that take the fee mining on this pool. If the connexion to the pool is blocked (by proxy/host moddification etc), you stop the miner.
You keep control of your fees and miners are pleased to have lower fee. win/win
