Ouf, that's a take I have not thought of before. I like the way you think. There have been increased shilling towards POS over the past and they also have the mentality that miners should just bend the knee to perceived authority anyway.

Lightning also need a certain amount of blocksize to function also as described in its technical paper, so it being a big factor in the self destruction is just very fitting. That would really explode BCH in every way. It would definitely handle it with the usage based block size adjustment in place.