The only reason why anyone would direct their rig to mine ETC is hoping that the value increase after the ETH merge is successful but you guys have forgotten that ETH forks are coming, they might be a better option than ETC.
See the BTC forks...
ETC is a fork of ETH and is the future of POW.
Wrong, ETH is a fork of ETC

The only reason why anyone would direct their rig to mine ETC is hoping that the value increase after the ETH merge is successful but you guys have forgotten that ETH forks are coming, they might be a better option than ETC.
ETC rised over the last weeks, and it will continue. I wouldn´t trust this new forks for ETH after the merge - ETC is the original ETH chain, it exist for so long time, with max cap coins, reward reduction after a specific block time and it is the 3. biggest PoW network at the moment.
ETC can be ASIC mined.