Trevor –
You’re right. Yoast is somewhat bloated and they do push their premium platform quite a bit. And you’re also right about OptimizePress being somewhat fussy. They do have a list of incompatible plugins. I already checked it. Yoast isn’t on the list. There are a few posts in the knowledgebase about issues with Yoast, none of which are really resolved.
I did a bit of testing last night, and as it turns out, it looks like the only real issue is the fact that Yoast doesn’t properly read the pages created with OptimizePress when it scans then for its dashboard data. It seems the sitemap gets created fine and the pages render fine if I select them from the sitemap. So that means the spiders should be able to crawl the pages.
Bob –
You know who the pioneers are, don’t you? The ones with arrows in their backs! 🙂