You can't compare fee and speed both at once. Fee is certainly high for BTC and will be high forever as long as you are doing on chain tx. ETH still have more tx pending than BTC I think. If BTC had such pending tx, I think fee would be crazy high.
For larger amounts I just use BTC and for smaller payments I use Bitcoin Cash BCH.
As jackg said, it's thousand times better to use Litecoin if you somehow want to use an altcoin. Bitcoin Cash is totally a centralized shit.