I’m not glorifying Monero at all, especially CPU mining. What gave you this impression?

The idea that miners will not do bad things because some plebs might switch pools and their business will suffer must be murdered and put to rest forever, otherwise we as a network of peers wouldn’t last very long. Pools have been doing very nasty stuff for years, very evidently and openly since 2023 and the only part that switched was a tiny minority that adopted Datum with Ocean.