the same pools that were mining segwit before are still mining it now, so there doesn't appear to be any increase in support and this is just variance related to pool luck.
It could be those pools (BCC and Bitfury) have increased their share of the hashrate. Which of course is also temporary
If we are counting on Voger Rer and Jihad Ackbar's supports for a recovery then bitcoin was already dead for a looong time. You just described what a centralized currency is, bitcoin. It's pretty annoying to know that those two actually have the power to destroy bitcoin. Wow. ASIC's boys. ASIC's killed bitcoin.
We've really got to do this PoW change, we're being given no choice
BU can just attack without any user support, it's pretty clear that they just don't care about keeping up the charade, really. And they can do this at any time, and will likely choose their timing carefully.
If the PoW change isn't at least already in progress by the time BU inevitably do attack, we're far more screwed than we would be otherwise. The alternative is to do a sudden emergency change, as suggested by the Core devs and others, and that's just an invitation for BU to attack.
I hope literally
everyone can rid themselves of the naivety I'm seeing in some people: BU is intended as an attack, and it will be used that way. Waiting around until they attack is not an option