I think mining is far more important as you're portraying it or making it look, miners are very pivotal in this network,and a dearth of miners often leads to a huge drop in the price of the bitcoin.

The more miners shut down their rigs,the less bitcoin is mined and a reduction in the demand of the bitcoins,and an increase in the issue of scalability.

This network definitely cannot do without miners,the more reason we need the price to improve in order to incentivize miners