Clearly this is not about being against innovation. The problem is, that this kind of innovation might not be equally available to all miners, which poses the risk of a malevolent mining cartel.
Of course it's not gonna be equally available to all miners, nothing ever is. Not government subsidized 2-4 cent power, just for starters.
As far as "malevolent mining cartels" go, scratch the malevolent part (Bitcoin has no anti-monopoly rules, afaik), and sure, we got them already
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