Thanks for responding.

And BCH can keep doing Emergency Difficulty Adjustments for....how long? In perpetuity? Is that the caveat that could potentially bring BTC down, like you say, how many times can it escape the death spiral? Nobody seemed to mind the mempool and fees bloat this past time, if market value is any indication. The question is, will they eventually care?

I guess I just got a little wrapped up in the whole death spiral thing and I think it's a looooong game here and maybe even, in the meantime, some other coin rises to the forefront while these two play their back and forth. We shall see!