I suppose with ones less fork coin to look forward to, some are now putting more eggs into the Bitcoin Cash basket. Bitcoin Classic just became the latest casualty of Segwit2x's suspension:
https://bitcoinclassic.com/news/closing.html.
Not that I think many of the "next billion people" will rush to BCH and call it Bitcoin in the maximum time of six months Tom Zander feels it'll take. I will pity the folks using Bitcoin Classic wallets who'll suddenly fight out one day they're no longer in control of their Bitcoins.
Interesting point that you make. I don't track BCH prices and just mine BTC blindly. But I'm not to concern about the drop in price since it's going to be huge! A 35% difficulty reduction even at $6800 will be mean I'm mining and making $9180 in today's value. We can go all the way back to $4500 before I would start to show any concern.
I've been psychologically at $4k for a long time now, so I won't be bothered either by any drop above that.