I think the majority of folks on here on hodlers. Mempool doesn't matter to many and there's a multi faceted plan to make transactions faster.
Mining power can be moved and replaced and with all of the creative developers, some sort of plan is likely in the works.
Can you please enlighten me on the general plan to make transactions faster and cheaper? I've been looking out for it, but there isn't much.
You are not looking hard enough. Start using SegWit addresses and you will see a significant drop in the fees. We have reached consensus to use SegWit and now nobody wants to use it. The spammers are not focusing their sabotage on SegWit, because it is more expensive.
This will hopefully be a thing of the past, once the Lightning Network come into play. ^smile^