Tough you kinda have to wonder why it is that demand for Bitcoin transactions has dropped below a third-million a day. While lower fees are attractive, the fact that this is due to lack of demand seems worrisome.
Like always you cannot use tx count as a metric to judge usage
This is like using your car tachometer to judge it's speed
LOL isn't that exactly what Kore has been doing with Segwit? "it's a 3.5x blocksize increase", "it will solve all the scaling issues", etc.
And here they are, dead in the water. Fees dropped and the mempool cleared. Because everyone left! And don't even get me started on Lightning. What a joke.
How is comparing tx numbers with percentages even remotely the same
Well it was your analogy, but if you still can't see it, I'll explain it for you.
Kore claimed that Segwit was a 3.5x capacity increase (tachometer shoots up 3500 rpms). Speed (and Tx capability) remained basically unchanged (possibly 1.1x increase), so the speedometer didn't move. Fees went through the roof (the engine overheated), and everybody fled the car fire. Greg Maxwell poured some "champaign" on it to no avail, then he left too.
Now the car is fine (low fees). Except it's a burnt-out shell that won't move.
Segwit is still not widely adopted hence you are not seeing it's full benefits yet
With the rollout of 0.16.0 just around the corner as the final release has now been tagged this will help make the transition to segwit much easier for everyone as it it now default but even then you will not see it's full benefit until the rollout of bech32 addresses they are now a option on 0.16.0 but segwit wrapped in P2SH is the current default
So far Bitcoin has always just worked for me shame I cannot say the same for BCH I just reset my HW wallet the other day and the little bit of BCH that was in it was not as easy to move to a new address/seed with the neew cashaddress format I had to bounce it around a couple of times cos my wallet wouldn't accept it as a valid address
