By forking away from asics, zencash will keep its traditional community base of Gpu miners engaged in the project and increase profitability for Gpu miners who will spread themselves between Gpu friendly coins.

It will also push the existing asics to other Equihash coins, thereby reducing the profitability of asics as they are competing for the same coins from the handful of projects that support asics. This should impact the hold companies like Bitmain have on mining.

All this supports the idea that Zencash should aim to be a Gpu friendly coin, and fork away from asics when possible. Gpu mining will help shift sentiment back in Zencash's favor in my opinion. I love Zencash and hope the Gpu mining community can get back behind this great project!