For us, it was no decision at all; we were founded on the idea of returning mining power to commodity hardware like GPUs instead of ASICs.
I’m still hopeful that Zcash Co. will come around and support all the people who’ve been mining and supporting them for so long… perhaps when BTG shows that it’s possible and helps provide a “smooth path” to transition, they will find it to be an easier decision to take.
Meanwhile, we’ll work hard to get it done… with the help of the independent developers of mining software, like @Funakoshi. (I don’t know if you’ve heard of his relatively new Funakoshi miner.)
It’s important to remember that the developers of mining software have collectively put in thousands of hours to produce their software, promote it, built up bases of followers… if Equihash fell to ASICs, those software developers would also have their hard work cast aside.
BTG won’t abandon the mining community.