The fees are very high
How can be the fees to be very high if you can send $0.05 for the next 6 blocks? I thought that I won't see anyone complaining about the fees anymore but here you go. How much you paid for your transaction?
and it is very slow. This makes it very impractical for a lot of uses. What am I missing?
Relative to the price, I know you're trying to understand it but that's what we call
volatility. Bitcoin has that character so you have to understand it more that it doesn't have an actual and certain price where it can stay forever.