They will only care about the technology advancing if it increases the value of bitcoin, and thus the fiat nominal price of their yields.

As soon as we blow through the next peak they might become more pliable as they watch their next decline.

Attrition in mining ideally will favour those with long vision but after 13 years since the first peak it doesn't look like we can rely on miners lasting long enough to make long term view decisions.

Satoshi was wrong about arbitrary data storage.