You are not looking hard enough. Start using SegWit addresses and you will see a significant drop in the fees. We have reached consensus to use SegWit and now nobody wants to use it. The spammers are not focusing their sabotage on SegWit, because it is more expensive.
This will hopefully be a thing of the past, once the Lightning Network come into play. ^smile^
Lets let the numbers do the talking. Do the fees really drop? There has been instances where SEGWIT transactions have cost more
It is all a scam by the miners who know that now there are many small investors out there who have no choice but to accept their abuse of monopoly power
No proof?
In a payment network there are always spikes - related to different reasons. Price move, salary, black friday,..
Visa holds extra capacity for such events - bitcoin core ? No more !
Bottlenecks and high flow is called turbulence / chaos (known physics laws) and cannot be handled - sorry.