You're not giving me a direct yes or no answer so I'll assume that you are trying to avoid admitting OCEAN would not accept a valid block find from one of their miners that excludes the pool fee. Yes, I understand that the miner broadcasts their block find. What you are acting coy about is the fact that unless OCEAN is broadcasting the valid block find as well then there is a higher risk of that block being orphaned. The average miner doesn't have well connected direct node connections globally like a large mining pool does. For you to tell me that OCEAN depends on their users' home networking connections to propagate blocks across the network is asinine.

Of course we'd accept any valid block. That's a stupid assumption on your part. But the point is even if we didn't, it wouldn't be any worse than any other solo mining solution. The others all only broadcast from the miner's own node.