i think its more of the case that ASICS(miners) jsut hash a blockheader ID and have no influence of the transaction selection.
asics have no ram to store mempools of unconfirmed tx's nor hard drives to store all transactions to validate transctions
its nt miners job

its pool managers that do transaction selection using code made by core that prioritise transaction by cores policy of fee estimates

so while core devs have pushed a narrative to blame miners and pretend miners need the extra income. miners dont need the income nor resort to extortion to get it. but they simply happily receive extra via their pool for just existing on a pool. miners dont need the extra, but would be happy to receive extra

the real finger pointing should be the pools that accept the spam and the core devs that doing fix the exploits that allow the spam/fee bumping