Looks like you got your history pretty straight.

I get that they had to premine to maintain control early on.
I think that they think that folks raping the reward pool are doing us a favor by forcing a code change rather than a people change.

Were they to stop, I think they would find that nobody will fill their shoes, and that anybody that does will be rejected by the community.
Instead they line their pockets and snub their noses at us.
Telling us to change what they could have already changed by not being jerks.

Yeah, stinc, et al!