I agree with what you said that both are very necessary and inseparable parts and very important and very interconnected. It is indeed very difficult not to have a relationship between them. If they really need each other by themselves, they will always be one unit to need each other.
That's exactly what I meant. So therefore we cannot survive without mining although we are not doing it. Crypto market can be shut down if mining stops. To understand this phenomenon, pretend the internet goes off in all over the world, no one could connect to the network by their nodes.
No one can add any transactions, or create new block etc. Thus no one can make transaction either, no one can use exchanges or dexs whole market will shut down same thing can happen but only few things might be working like maybe exchages will be working.
Of course, what you are worried about could happen and that is because mining has indeed stopped, and it is difficult not to do that because they need each other.
If the internet is indeed down, then it will not be able to connect and that connection requires an internet network that must be available properly, so if there is none, then it will stop and die along with the internet.
That's right, that no one will be able to add anything to all their activities, so no transactions can happen.