You don't need respond, I'm not trying to offend you or spoil an enjoyable event, but they do make about 90% of the mining hardware and have affective control of the pools.

I'm sure individually they are nice people, and it's always great to get free tickets for anything, but we all want to maintain decentralisation.

I wish them well, but less well than they are doing currently.

Also, you are right, I am mostly a twat, it is my day job 😂