I respect your decision in regard to the miners... BUT... don't get too comfortable with a couple of greedy miners telling you it is a good choice.
The longer it takes for dependable miners and/or pools... the worst for Sia (on all levels).
I do believe that others however are interested in working on Sia miners. We are willing to help anyone who wishes to release their own open source miners and mining pools, we're just not going to be making them ourselves during the forseeable future.
Outsource the work... don't leave it to chance.
Siacoin is about decentralized storage and not about mining.
The miners are securing the network and keeping it up.
For the actualy development of the coin and of the storage feature, there is no difference on who mines which coins.
As long as there are no big monopolies - who cares?
Whoever is able to read the sia source code and to optimize the miner can do so and will be able to make profit of that - thats a fact that wont change - that fact does not depend on the devs ALSO developing a miner.