I honestly expected a more significant dip in hashrate/difficulty after the halving, and certainly not a complete recovery until July/August, despite a relatively weak price performance.
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Of course the hashrate/difficulty value is always expected to grow a bit due to Moore's law. Nevertheless, hashrate holds surprisingly well until now.
most miners dont pay their costs weekly/monthly
the amount of hobby miners might but the % of total miners that are home hobby miners are small %
most asic farms buy hardware with the assumption of spreading hardware cost over 2 years and they buy electric credit in MW/GW lumps of a 2 year constant supply, so they will mine no matter the market swing and the at the end of the life cycle they total up the coin accumulation and look at cost to then average a price per coin
the small % of hobby miners will play the whims of the market and pool jump to shaPoW alt coin or just turn off asic and market purchase when price is lower than their regions cost
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i think its time you look deeper into the economics of the mining sector