Perhaps I'm missing something but even as a crypto-hopeful this doesn't disturb me too much. Bitcoin et al. is better off without mining becoming consolidated into giant conglomerates.

The vision is for mining to be distributed amongst many small to mid-sized, non-colluding teams, the sum of whose hashpower is still greater than that which could be mustered by, say, a government or bank.

I hope that one day the UX and hardware for mining and joining mining pools becomes so simple and cheap it just makes sense for many semi-technical people to run a node in their home or contribute their compute/storage to distributed protocols. Even have this built into the operating system, with a simple toggle for turning it on and off.

Truly distributed mining is largely a UX problem. I hope that these bans may spur spur development on dead simple mining pools for all.