No. Miners get a direct payout from the Coinbase. This is actually an awesome development. The template is contructed with knots and not core. Censoring transactions.

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Miners have a choice whether they mine there or not, and so one could quite reasonably make the argument that a pool with an alternative reference client is actually adding to censorship resistence, as opposed to detracting from it.

I just rewatched the announcement, and it sounds like miners having the ability to construct their own blocks is their intended goal, albeit that they're not there yet:

https://youtu.be/_PH5sKrkzZY?t=16914