"The miners have Won". Since anyone in the public can be a miner, the phase changes to "The public has won".
Hmm, Nope
Can you be a cloud miner, sure but Cloud miners always lose more than they make, they would have been better off just to buy BTC than trying to mine it.
The real question, is can Anyone be a Profitable Miner, for that you need a few million dollars of capital to invest.
Most people can not afford the start up cost, so sorry anyone can't be a BTC miner
(it is a myth that has been dead for years.)

And that's what I try to say: If you have done this kind of investment, you might have just enough capital to set up a vast majority of nodes i.o. to over-rule non-miner interests entirely.