What I am not missing is the long history of abusing the reward pool by sockpuppet accounts and the community's response to that.
It's great that you bring new eyes to the content and hive, but not at the expense of authentic content creators already here.
The reward pool is a commons.
The rewards that go to non-authentic content are taken from the lowest earning authentic creators.
That has been deemed not acceptable by the community and we downvote this type of abuse when we find it.
A simple solution to this is to burn, or decline, rewards for videos from creators that can't be bothered to get an account.
If those creators that don't link to us on their other media outlets and can't be bothered to get an account because they don't care about the rewards then why would they object to our zeroing of their rewards?
They don't care about the rewards, right?
Their content will be here whether they get rewards, or not.
Burning/declining rewards really is a simple ask.
It precludes any accusations of ya'll plagiarizing to benefit yourselves and as you say it makes no difference to those not concerned with the rewards.