asics haven't ruined anything, asics are merely another tool, human greed on the other hand has ruined a lot.
+1 This guy has it spot on.
This place was pretty chill back in the day. After BFL, Pirate, Zhou and a few other things this place went down the drain. It went from being pretty cool with people helping each other out to a place where everyone is cut throat and trying to make an extra buck.
ASICs aren't the issue. GPUs, FPGAs, it's all the same really. Did anyone honestly think people were going to CPU mine for the next 100+ years?