There are so many other solutions to this "death spiral" problem. There is Digishield, Dark Gravity Wave and many other retarget algos to chose from. There is also merged mining. The EDA has already shown that it falls way short of having relatively consistent and reliable block times.
You seem to be under the impression , that your imagination gets to set the standard for the block times.
You Don't.The Block Time is set by the miners and the EDA makes certain, their greed does not freeze the coin network.
It recognizes miners are profit based, and does not pretend their coin is a religion like segcrap. So until things stabilize , sometimes it runs faster than normal , other times maybe only 1 or 2 per hour.
But here is the rub, one 8MB bitcoin cash block per hour still exceeds the segwit 1mb coin 6 blocks per hour standard transaction capacity.
No changes required, don't like the EDA , then over paid to use segshit coin, I don't care if you like throwing your money away.
But I am more frugal with mine and won't waste it.
EDA works, which will become even more apparent in Dec.
╥Aztek
My other solutions would have worked much better. If Bitcoin Cash went with Digishield or Dark Gravity Wave, Bitcoin Cash would have already had a nice stable network with many happy, devoted miners plugging away.