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.
Transaction spike is somehow a good sign that more and more people are trading bitcoin and will result to a higher price. It may be a result of people converting from one crypto to bitcoin or even from fiat to bitcoin that caused the transaction volume to go high.