there is no need to drop security.
no need to mess with difficulty
no need to pressure users to pay more per tx.

ASICS do not touch/handle/process/compute transactions.
the amount of transactions do not affect asics by one bit

trying to say the mining cost is impacted by transaction amounts is FALSE

anyone can set up a pool and their desktop computer does the transaction computing..
they can then open their bandwidth to hundreds of thousands of asics to mine a hash for them
thats right asics only mine hashes. not transactions.
a pool manager does not have to run asics to make block templates
an asic does not need to make block templates to compute hashes

transactions and block fee's are not relational. they are just statistical after the fact.
so to all those trying to link a transaction as 'costing' $100 due to the block reward. you are creating a false narrative

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now with that said. there are ways to get pools to continue on the same $$ income or increase their $$ income
without messing with security, difficulty, less hashrate. or other stupid idea's mentioned in this topic

a. bitcoin price doubles
    ai. if users pay half sat, pools get same $ income(users pay same $)
    aii. if users pay same sat, pools get double $ income(but users pay double $)
b. double transactions per block
    bi. if users pay half sat with twice amount of transactions, pools get same $ income(users pay less $)
    bii. if users pay same sat with twice amount of transactions, pools get double sat income(users pay same $)
c. make average transaction size less bloaty/more leaner
    ci. if users pay same sat/byte, with less bytes/tx(more tx per block), pools get same income $, users pay less $