$5 for unlocking tokens, $12 for token sell. $17 you could buy 8 days of food with it here, horseshit fees.
its really insane mate, but we could not do nothing with this gas fee. every trader set their gas fee higher to make sure transaction confirmed soon. maybe only network improvement could solved this and ethereum 2.0 be solution.
waiting for ethereum 2.0 is too long and it is better in my opinion to use another dex that offers a cheaper fee than uniswap, it's just that the volume is usually not as good as uniswap but that is the most efficient way, and also if you have limited capital, trading on cex exchange saves more fees even though the choice tokens on cex exchange are not much like uniswap but I think they are very adequate.