When bitcoin prices arise and many transactions waiting on the mempool, higher fees are unavoidable.
I guess that at the point all the big exchanges will allow LN deposits and withdrawals this situation may not happen again.
But somehow I think that this will not happen this bull run/cycle. Maybe in the next, at least...
In less than 3 days the miners' difficulty will go down by a great deal. That should help with faster blocks, for a while.
But overall, indeed, the situation doesn't look great...