Finally having some first experiences with Bitcoin, seems very disappointing.
The fees are very high, and it is very slow. This makes it very impractical for a lot of uses. What am I missing?
LIES. The fees are low and the transactions are super fast next to wire transfers and other payment methods that require days for processing.
Bitcoin has only one fee that matters: 1 sat/B. The rest is ignorant people who fail to use a proper wallet with manual setting of transfer fees.
There is only a small use case where people would need the transfer NOW, and for that LN is filling the void. This requires wallet support. In the meantime don't use it for that if you can't be bothered to wait an hour or so for a very cheap transaction (3¢ like) or a few minutes for something approaching 1$.