Anything worth having will motivate people to circumvent any measures put in place to create difficulty to obtain from my point of view ASICs are an annoying thing from the perspective of the little man but they are a sign that it's worth having.

SIA in general has had some odd issues. They wanted to introduce their own ASICs. The fact that they are OK with forking because of Bitmain's products is a bad road to go down and will see some people shy away from it from the centralization aspect. I do see the 51% side although as well.

I am all for PoS coming into play for ETH. The F3 might speed up the process on the ETH dev side for PoS movement but only time and announcements will tell.