You can't preach "decentralization" out one side of your mouth and flip the default on your main pool endpoint to signal BIP 110 without asking. You spent years bragging about how Ocean gives miners "sovereign" blocks through DATUM. You said you're only a miner if you're building your own templates. But now the default on the regular Stratum pool is switching to signal the soft fork on July 15th? Lol.. That's you setting policy for everyone.
This is also exactly what I've been telling everyone for years. Ocean spent all that time larping about "sovereign" miners building their own templates, acting like they were the decentralization kings. I kept saying there's nothing technical stopping them from changing their policy whenever they feel like it.... And here we are today..
When you log into Ocean, by default you're now signaling for BIP 110. They are constructing the block for you. You have to actively opt out if you don't want to signal. That's their right, it's their business, it's their pool. But let's not pretend this is the same story they were selling.
Ocean needs new leadership