I suggest that the Recently staked Cake holders. Who own over 25% of vecake dominance use their gauge vote on the Vecake gauge and you will see the APR shoot up for holders of Cake and this will drive forward demand to lock more cake in staked positions. This is alternative solution especially if you feel you are waste cake emissions on specific pools.
Simply increase the vote to the VeCake Gauge and incentivize people to stake and this will increase demand and price for Cake.