Yeah - LBI is a LEO project, that won't change. I've had a few people tell me the 7.5% is not enough. My response is that I'm likely to keep buying more LBI, and move alot of my HIVE funds into a big LBI position. So yes the operator fee is one thing, but if I have heaps of tokens then working on LBI is simply working on my HIVE wallet, so building up LBI income is directly building my own income - from dividends along with the modest operator fee.