Users should be given back the ability to mine in the privacy of their own homes where the government has no right to stop them.
Sounds good, doesn't work. Ethereum also envisioned that because of GPU mining they will have a more decentralized network, and yet no one really mines at home with their single GPU that they bought for gaming, almost all mining is done by farms, and they tend to be large data centers and not small-scale home farms. And don't forget how it ruined the GPU market and GPUs essentially got turned into professional tools unavailable for general population.