It would be really great if ZF can work with community to set up expectations for users who use shielded pools, right now, it’s not clear how long can they store value in the shielded pool they selected. There is no automatic way to upgrade? Is there one? there are various types of users: exchanges, custodians, custodial, mobile, desktop & hardware wallets to handle. How can Zcash innovate without creating user burden & complexity? I’m not an Zcash tech expert but ZF & others can come together with better solution (don’t tell me we are going to have new pools every-time Zcash innovates).
Destroying any shielded pool is confiscating private money.
EDIT: ebfull’s post about what I described here: What do we do about legacy value pools?