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What do you mean collateral damage? Is there such a thing? If the basis is trading volume, then that means the numbers are the only consideration. If a pair has a good trading volume as per the standard of Binance, no way will it be delisted. If a pair has a very low trading volume, then it will be delisted regardless of whether it is paying a monthly fee or not. Binance is the leading exchange for now, it needs to set a high standard of liquidity and it will not stain its reputation for the sake of some fees from the token owners.
In my opinion this is not a matter of trading volume because some of coins removed have a high volume. Well I think binance has a problem with developers as mentioned above (monthly fees), but here I also don't understand if the problem is monthly fees. It is not possible for a coin developer unable to pay monthly fees at binance because some of them are top coins.