As a direct user of the system, this is good news. Much easier for aircraft to get in and out of rarely-busy sparse-trafficked non-towered airports than when they have towers.
Another example of "make-work", as only a national govt knows best how to do.
I’m all in favor of not paying for things we shouldn’t be paying for. If some of the closures are things that should be closed, then that will have been a positive.