I just checked the Gas fee at Etherscan, now you only need to pay $ 1 for the transaction to be confirmed. It has fallen many times over the previous days, and hopefully in the future it will continue to decrease. And I have the same mindset as you, it is the Defi projects that get ETH congested and have a huge high gas fee.
I also hope the gas will go down because I can't do any transactions when the gas is very high. gas is down, ethereum prices have also decreased, is the Defi trend over?
It's not over yet, even they already set a ATH record and set new record in total locked value there for sure more in store in them this year, I don't think there are new ways or market yet that can stop DeFi market or that will shift the hype into other market like what happen in ICO into STO to IEO. The good thing only at these moment as DeFi seems to slow down in hype is the gas went a little low than it was in a last few days.