The US is taking it seriously. First, a bill that enforces using bitcoin only through KYC-only CEX. Now, this. The Bitcoin community needs to take advantage of the network being censorship resistant, and where information is "hard to stifle", as one had once said.
Now comes the real challenge which is, who owns the piece of the software, or where does it run?
Getting rid of the middleman is what's all about your proposal. If there needs to be a supernode for the network to operate, it can be regulated. I have no experience on mining, but can't there be a decentralized autonomous organization, as in Bisq? With Pay-per-share included using investors' funds at first.