However, "miners" are really validators/block creators on the one hand and hashers on the other.
I think you're confusing miners with people who sell their computing power to miners. Someone who has no knowledge or interest of the integrity of the blocks they are producing are little more miners in the language we'd use to describe the security properties of the system than AMD or a random electric company is the only difference is that they potentially have a kill switch which they could use long after its too late.