You're not factoring in the security difference when comparing tx fees.
Fewer nodes is not fine. Full validation isn't for everyone buy we should aim at not increasing the cost of it.
What's the problem with SegWit? What's much more than SegWit???
It wasn't so much about the bet but that he thinks it might take up to 10 years for BCH to recover.
What do you mean by " doesn't mean they actually are.".
You're right that high fee lasted more than two months, more like 4 months.
There is no way to know for sure if this fee surge was organic or politically motivated at the time. In hindsight it appear that it was.
I suggest you check more often than every few year if you're invested in BCH.
-Just a quick acknowledgement on my part before I resume my break from this BCH/BTC mess. These questions (in whatever limited way) deserve answers, but I think I have already given them elsewhere and I want to leave these arguments to others for a while. Preferably to be solved in free market competition between actual technological implementations, but we shall see what the future holds in store.