Are you of the opinion that difficulty will continue to increase?
Yes. Firstly, I think mining will become very profitable again. Secondly, cost per ghps will continue to plummet for at least 2 years. Thirdly, the hardware is mostly going to keep running even if it is never profitable because there are too many people incentivized to keep the network secure (for themselves,not necessarily for me) for much of it to find a land-fill.