For about 2 decades, yes - and I could do it completely for free, as I got my XRP in giveaways.
If this is how you want to spend your money, I am not going to judge you. You make up part of the crowd that is willing to pay for using the transaction network. If people are willing to spend their XRP on that, they will be willing to spend their BTC on that. This ends up being a part of the whole in the total daily transaction fees.