Only those who willingly wants to distort history would claim they there are no significant impact the launching of SegWit has bring to bitcoin transactions. I remembered a time that the pool is so full and you need to pay in percentage in other to get your transactions confirmed among several issues then. With SegWit all of those are becoming thing of the past and even if the price of bitcoin increased to that of last year and activities increased so much, I don't see any increase in transaction fees to such high point again.
Sorry but at this point, it's you who wants to distort not history but the current reality.
I've already posted a graph
here right now, we're below 2017 and even 2016 transaction number levels.
In the current situation, segwit or not segwit the blockchain would not experience the same high transaction fees.
Segwit adoption and more important transaction batching have helped overcome the spam attack but right now there are blocks getting mined each day 1/4 and 1/2 full, the activity has cooled a lot.