Neeh. This will lead to far more junk down the road once ETH goes PoS. It's just anti consumer all the way masked as consumer protection. They should just produce more cards, but they are afraid current sales will eat into future sales _heavily_.
How are they supposed to just increase production right now? There's silicon shortages across most industries. In theory, lowering demand by limiting crypto mining efficiency should help give more people access to these cards.