Now, the question is more clear to me.


Unless the vast majority of LN users exclude or lower the priority of large HUBs, it won't make that much of a difference. It's kind of 'vote with your wallet'. I don't think that's an issue since more layers are going to be built on top of the Lightning Network, so an avarage Joe will use different layers while more experienced users will know about priorities.

It looks like LND allows to ignore certain nodes while querying possible routes (ignored_nodes parameter). The outputs can be used in SendToRoute, so it's already possible to do what you suggested manually using LND. SendPayment does not have such feature but it is possible to select the first node which will route the payment.