There are rules about signing up on the ACA exchanges mid-year, you have to have a qualifying life event. You should check to make sure that COBRA expiring counts, I don't remember ever reading exactly that (although it might just fall under losing workplace coverage).
If I were in your shoes I would probably switch over to a new full year plan in January, and maybe start poking around the job market just in case I came across a less-than-full-time dream job that offered family insurance as a benefit.
I am surprised people are so confident that the pre-existing condition exemption will stay. It makes for a very complicated market because of the ability to game the system, and the political party that has been voting, stumping, and essentially turned into one giant blinking neon sign to repeal the ACA for the last 4 years just took over the entire government. I would be very worried if I relied on it for health insurance.
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