The news article reports that the U.S has > 82% of BTC atm's worldwide, so i don't think there is that 'spread' that you are talking about. However, it is not a bad news, so..yeah. The government of countries where BTC ATM's operate do not have a problem it, as long as the BTC atm operators have been approved by the authorities to operate and set up their machines in the country.
The US and Canada have always dominated the total number of crypto ATMs, and even if something has changed a little in that percentage, it still doesn't mean much for the rest of the world. Some countries in the EU have a significant number of such devices, while some others have only a few, which only shows that the interest in such a way of selling/buying cryptocurrencies is quite different.
Even more fascinating to me is the fact (coinatmradar) that crypto ATMs exist (for now) in only 70 countries in the world, which is approximately 30% of all countries in the world.