He's pulling out champagne to celebrate this huge success
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2017-December/015455.html
indeed producing activity levels that can pay for security without
inflation, and also producing fee paying backlogs needed to stabilize
consensus progress as the subsidy declines.
The network was always designed to need fees to survive once all the block rewards have gone fees will be all that's left and 99% will be gone in around 10 years with the further 1% over the next 100 years
No fees No Network as it says with low fees the only option is inflation so fork again to print more BCH to pay the miners