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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.
Its actually depends how much is the monthly Fees. not all of them can continue to pay since other use their money for future development of thier project . at first i though as long as you have a good community supporting the project there will not have a problem in binance , its looks like they are making it more strictly now .