The issue is that people think they can get some info out of a poll when they can't without post processing the to remove all the crap. I was with you that polls didn't need to be super serious, but in practice people get really dissatisfied when their poll becomes irrelevant. So much that they stop creating polls altogether. Idk..
I've done plenty of polls on pollerama and never had a problem, or felt the need to filter them, I've never seen anyone complain about pollerama polls either actually. So it's not all people. But I do appreciate your logic. I'd like to think both zap/normal polls can be accommodated and it is another tool for interesting post/discussion discovery, which it isn't, in its current mostly unused state