I have paid 4.3$ fee 110sat/Byte and that was not enough to push tx forward for over 2h and I am still waiting.
So we need 1000$ fees ? to motivate miners.

Pool mining is problem for shitcoins in bitcoin if we see it that mean something, before BTC was to big to be challenged but now you have
Bitman who push BCH forward - single entity that play whole network. They hope on BTC / BCH they turn off miners when they want.
This is not even pooled mining but one entity who has grown to big and rekting network sadly its bringing BTC to shitcoin flor.
BTC have no longer biggest security on planet. With good bear market will be fun to see BCH mining more and more coins like 10 000 per hour.
EDA makes BCH always profitable. (but they need print more and more too keep it alive)