@mjmeans With all the respect you deserve.

I think in the beginning all of us think about fees, but hey everything in life have a cost, just take all in consideration and keep on mining.
We pay (in mining world) for the pool, for transfers, for developer of mining software, for convert to fiat, electricity, ventilation, extra AC circuits, and the list goes longer, hey we pay even for receive transfers (Localbitcoins case).
In the end is just something we must pay, and never was part of our income, because if we dont pay the cost, we dont have the full thing, so without costs we have nothing  .

In the time i owned just some gpus (and before that, just one fx 6300 cpu) i used to think like that, (i need to save every penny), but after a while i realize that even my time cost (oh boy, i invest so many time asking me those questions). An even now i can tell you, exprimenting so many variable paths to go from my rig to a dollar in my account, cost you even more, because crypto is a very volatile world.

I will give you just example about what was applied in the past, and i think maybe is worth for you give it a try. If you want low fees, autoexchange to a little coin, in this example "EXP" (You pay only 0.0005 EXP, like 0.0008731 USD ), then you can cashout to Polo, sale in Polo for BTC and pay only 10,000 sat to get in gdax (Like 0.4329 USD).

But then you get the cons (Many time worst than the ones you can find using autoexchange), like exp 90 confirmations or 132 minutes, the coin change the price, you convert in a crash, etc, etc. But most of all "How many of your time you invest in doing that"

Just something to think about.

My best Wishes to all!