It's good to know that Genesis will not be moving away from PoW because I just began mining this and I like it. I hope there will be fair sharing of the rewards for both PoS with MNs and for PoW, since PoW eats more energy when compared to Staking and or MNs.
I agree with you on this. Like you i actually built my first ever rig with this project in mind. Even as my hash rate isn't that great at the moment, due to my choice of GPU's. While i like that i'm mining, its costing me quite a bit due to electricity price in my city, so i really can't wait for MN's and POS to be implemented along wth POW. POW + POS hybrid means that i would be able to in a way make up the difference in loss with the gain on either side of mining and staking.