I think reward pool rape is more of a personal feeling of what just rewards mean based on its dollar value. While some may be extracting rewards via bid bots or vote farming or whatever it's still a small % of the site and really doesn't affect much but looking at the minutia.

You can have a lot of a token but if it's worthless so is your stake. If everyone simply focusses on things they can control like investing in steem and growing their own account we can build a strong middle class that can deal with abusers and dictate how the site is used

I've seen so-called reward rapists also giving away some steem/sbd to carry favour and that itself helps use and distribution of funds. It did irk me in the beginning so I get why people are upset but its really just a result of the current status of the site and not what we aiming to have in future