For the speed people higher the fees and get included in earlier blocks, this can only be adjusted as we as a whole going to pay less fees for the transactions.
The price can always be worth it, but if we just used the generic fee rates then we should be patient enough and wait for our delayed transactions to arrive in our wallet. Having expensive transaction fee is a lot advantageous compared to normal fee, because blocks was too congested compared to higher miner fee. Most probably it was gaining higher fees during price increase of btc and let's expect it to soar during bull run.