Maybe not so simple economics.
If someone released a new ETH miner software that did say 10x current rates and only asked for a 4% fee. You think he would make more than Claymore does now, right? However, he wouldn't make anymore than Claymore does now because difficulty rates would increase which would adjust the rewards rates down proportionally. He would probably make less, probably need to charge 20% fee to break even with Claymore. Only advantage is to keep it to yourself, relatively speaking.
Also any software with increase rates would get reverse engineered and copied which I think has happened between Claymore, ethminer and sgminer. They all have about the same rates but Claymore's easier to setup, especially for dual mining.
Also, you can cheat the Claymore devfee and have it sent to yourself, though he makes a lot to be sure.
mining software is open sourced man, Claymore isn't the only one that can do it, ccminer is damn close to Claymore now. Claymore was the first person to do a cuda based ETH miner that can dual mine and that is why his has been so popular. Don't tell me there are programmers out there that are so much better then the over all community of programmers that work on ccminer and all its variants. Actually the only reason I use Claymore is because it dual mines, if it didn't do that or if I was just mining only Eth I would use ccminer cause that % difference creates a profit change for me, is about 5k a year.
If you look at the pools there are quite a few guys with 200 rigs going at least. If that isn't crazy amounts for one person, what is? To keep up 200 rigs and maintain them, you gotta hire 1 or 2 people. Just to purchase that much hardware you need to be a multi millionaire, their time is more important elsewhere, like their day job. So lets say someone like that is going to hire a programmer to make "special" mining software, money isn't going to last long. Just the infrastructure costs, cooling costs, salaries for people to make sure things are going at top performance ever second of the day. It will eat up the costs of what you are mining.
How can one release software that is 2x faster at mining than current software when the software is bound by the bandwidth of the graphics card? And I just showed you what the actual devs of Eth's blockchain just stated. So can you try to tell me how with only 480ish gb/s that Vega will have can reach 100 mhs? This isn't a software, driver issue, its purely hardware.
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