All Swan's business does is add overhead onto an industry which can't have a lot of. (The graveyard of managed mining services has plenty of examples).

Swan picked up a lot of hash (allegedly) so if they were in-tuned with mining by keeping all of their machines running, then they should have no time to be messing with bullshit. Coming out and say that they need others to pay to keep ASICs running is a signal of a failing mining operation because capacity cannot be fully deployed. That's how I read Swan's announcement 

Mining is tough, it's for anyone but not everyone 🤷 but who knows, maybe they really have some ASIC-whisperer running their operation like a master conductor -- some bullshit like that npubs on nostr can't fathom🙄 or... They should wise up and leave mining alone or at least step aside if they don't know what their doing