What do you think will happen if the price of the CHIA coin rises to 200-300 dollars? The number of miners will increase, the hashrate will increase, and new miners will mine on pools, and not play with luck in solo mining. As a result, solo mining will be possible only for large miners, and not for home miners with a couple of dozen hard drives.
Probably. But I wouldn't count on CHIA going up in price anytime soon, unless developers come up with something big for the project. Investors aren't that interested in HDD-mineable coins anymore. You can see why coins that are mineable with ASICs and GPUs are at the top ranks in market cap these days. Even PoS coins are getting traction (although they're extremely centralized).
At the end, HDD mining will only become a niche for those who're willing to waste large amounts of time and money just to support a blockchain network. At least, we have a variety of options to choose from. Who knows what would be of CHIA and BURST in the future? Just my opinion
