Yup, thing is with GPU mining....people get greedy...always...But they don't understand that every gpu they add brings their own earnings down a notch. I wouldn't worry too much though, there will always be a coin to mine. And ETH is still ways away from being POS. Maybe someone needs to make a hyper coin, with super fast blocks so the orphan rate is through the roof. Therefore only people with good latency and internet can mine it profitably, and solo mining would be better than pool mining.
Very true. And Eth type coins still have some promise. Always a good chance that smart contracts will get more attention and use on that platform causing a nice price rise. I don't see it going POS anytime soon either. I think the devs know that having a broad miner base for their coins helps keep enthusiasm up as well staying relevant from that miner support. Many POS coins kinda get stuck" and often pushed to the back burner due to lack of that enthusiasm, and are geared more at investment type market. Basically most are shit coins with no future as opposed to ETH. Not to say a few POS are not doing well.
I haven't really read up on Pascal, actually only looked at it 2 days ago after seeing it pump

but at a glance the Pascal Wallet/miner/explorer really is rather impressive and could present a new way of how wallets are utilized. So I am finding some interest in Pascal at this time. To soon to say if it will stick though.