Fees are still high. I don’t think bitcoin is only for early miners who have a lot of bitcoins, and for rich people’s who have a lot of money they both can pay as High fees he wants. We have to focus on whole users wich don’t have *million of bitcoins and can’t handle such a high fees.
Don't use bitcoin if you are not willing to pay higher transaction fees. Or, Just hold your bitcoin and wait until bitcoin transaction fees become lower. Not only rich people are using bitcoin ,even those with small capital also using it despite of higher fees.
The time when op has posted this, the fees weren't actually high.
But it's just so happen that the network is congested this time and the price increased. In result, we get to see high fee and the equivalent of the denomination for the fee has increased too if we're converting it to the USD.
I wouldn't care if I transfer that much amount and pay around $1-$10 of fee. But if I transfer small amount, that's when I become conscious about the fees. But as long as you'll pay with the recommended fee, do it and use free acceleration service such as viabtc to quicken the confirmation.
Be prepare too and have more patience with the congestion that we're having.