The article you linked doesn't say "death spiral". What are you talking about?

This is a figurative expression and it perfectly fits what he used it for.

There have been many Bitcoin miner capitulations and even China crackdown on Bitcoin mining but Bitcoin mining industry has been growing sharply over years.

Fud comes and goes while Bitcoin does not go anywhere like disappear or die as proven by many years since its block chains genesis block. Weak Bitcoin miners have to capitulate and give strong and well-managed miners good chances of expanding their mining hashrates.

End the fud including Mining fud.
https://endthefud.org/

Miner capitulation
https://charts.bitbo.io/miner-capitulation/

As what we say, negative or positive news, still a publicity to us.

However, this is not the first time that we have heard this kinds of news though. Around 2021, as far as I can remember, there was also a similar negative news, but it didn't have any impact on the price long range.

So maybe it will be used by some social media news, but I doubt that it will have this huge effect on the price as we're in the last stretch of the bull run.

So why did you link an article that proves the exact opposite of the claim you are making?

The only miners, as far as I tell, that are likely to succeed longterm regardless of Bitcoin price are individual miners in cold regions, especially those that have longer cold period. They could use heat from cheap miners to warm up their living spaces. And this will be beneficial to Bitcoin and the environment since it allows mining to be done by many people in energy efficient manner. It makes mining more decentralized in cost effective way as the generated heat is not wasted and the miners are solving multiple problems at thesame time, with the warming of homes being more necessary as it helps people survive cold environment while earning bitcoins, and probably using part of the profit to pay for their energy bill.  This is basically how hardwork from hard money could be more useful to society and Bitcoin in mutually beneficial manner.

Well i well, it is what it is, whenever there is a boom in whatever sector, is followed by a fud spree aiming at dragging the space down to it kneels, so we expect this to happen, Bitcoin mining is not the first service to get media propaganda attack, all the major top performing projects suffers same one time or the other.

The problem that's explained in the article where the profitability is low itself will be resolved on its own if the hash rate going down because then the existing miners that still mine bitcoin will have higher reward.

This article basically just nothing burger, holds no substance whatsoever, hashrate fluctuates and it's a pretty normal thing.

They might, but overall - when were the news a good source of proper analysis and facts presented?

BTC will prevail one way or another, as you said.

Bread is gonna to be made with fuzz like that - but yeah, the difficulty would just be adjusted accordingly.