>What do you think miners want to do? Hard fork to put them out of business through Proof of Stake, or hard fork to eliminate the difficulty bomb?

Anyone mining should be smart enough to know this would happen eventually and planned accordingly.

If I had to wager, I'd say that the miners who are working on ETH are just going to switch to mining other currencies once the PoS switch happens.

The equipment used for mining ETH are not ASICs and are just basic GPUs. Most people likely invested very little to mine JUST for ETH and even if they did, they'll likely be able to sell off or make use of their existing equipment.

Regardless of what happens, ETH is still an incredibly revolutionary product that will very likely change the world.