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.
I was about to make a transaction today, but surprisingly the transaction fee is too high unlike before. Though I can optimise the fee but I need an instant transaction which will cost me to much. So instead of making transaction I just trade it with XRP, which save me a lot of amount. Bitcoin is not for those who are in a hurry and want to spend large amount of transaction fee.
This can result in even more loss. Did you checked the exchange rates of XRP for the past few days? During the last one month, its price has declined from 2400 Sat to around 1750 Sat. And the trends indicate that it will go down even further during the next few weeks. So by attempting to reduce your fee, you are incurring even more loss. I understand that the transaction fee is very high. But we don't have a choice.