Looing like >4% increase in difficulty along with a ~9% drop in price. People keep saying this trend can't possibly continue, but then it just keeps going in the same direction...

Profitability is still relatively high though, it's just the gear prices that are out of control. Might just need some actual low profitability time to clean house... maybe a doubling of difficulty at current price or halving in price at current difficulty would get us there.