I'm presuming that as their new p2pool code is open source, it will be configurable in the same way it is now, so anyone can still have their own node?.....Maybe their hosted miners can also be configured this way too, so that it can be pointed at any node the user wishes? Just speculating, of course......
Yes no problem with that.
Thing is that in 12 months time - even in 3 months time a miner of 1TH/s might be useless to run at home/datacenter.
And where can I buy a new one from?
So in other words who needs an excellent working P2Pool when nobody will have miners at their homes making ROI.
The manufacturers are taking away the benefits we have with P2Pool with forcing cloud mining only (and by forcing I mean if they sell to us miners that will never ROI).