And also price is recovering

Also true.
Additional idea, why not just change the difficulty retarget time until the KGW is put in place? Isn't that something that could be implemented today? That way, we don't have to suffer though such an unnecessarily high difficulty while waiting on the KGW switch.
Anyone miners or pools using the old wallet would end up forked on an separate chain and wasting their time/losing coins. People have to be given a reasonable amount of time to upgrade.