bitcoin is a currency that is treated like a commodity by some people because they forget or don't even know what the purpose of bitcoin has always been!

1) in the past 4 years I have been paying a small fee and had no problem with my confirmation. a short period of high fees is all your argument?!! and believe it or not there are a lot of things between Coffee and a Car.
regardless of that the high fees have been the result of design, bad decisions, and attacks against bitcoin.

2) reason for volatility is because it is new, not yet mass adopted, and also that same misconception that people see it as a commodity, as something they can get rich off of not a currency. and yeah until these change we won't see stability.