How can we be expected to invest in this stupidity?
Here is a guy trying to give Andreas a tip of $1.50. To do that, he paid $13.46 in fees. Does that seem like a sensible payment system? Not. It is garbage. SegWit didn't help with anything.

That is spot on - and this is why it will never work, and continue to decline
The price goes up a bit, but the whole crowd is moving to the alts and making tons of money there. Lightning is still many years away from real use. Bitcoin might not be the leader in just 3 months. Blockstream messed it all up.