Pos will wipe the regular miner that wont be able to meet the 2000 ethereum necessary to mine pos so if this goes through it will mean more centralization instead of descentralized system. Also I believe this will provoke a fork with 2 visions of what ethereum should be and all the Pow miners will go there or just leave and mine ubiq that is a clone of ethereum just 200 times cheaper.
RE: Ethereum to switch to PoS before November 1, 2017