What this news implies is that there are still miners who believe that bitcoin mining is a profitable business.
Or it could mean that institutions with huge mining farms could be making massive profiles while those with small mining farms get kicked out which could spell centralization of Bitcoin mining.
With more miners, let's hope that the transaction fees will improve as well as the duration of every transaction.
The transaction fees has directly nothing to do with the Number of miners. It's mostly affected by the number of transaction in the mempool, bitcoin network difficulty