i believe this gas fee problem will be addressed on this eth 2.0. i dont think the eth dev team is sleeping on this bottleneck. because if they will not do anything about it, a lot will go to another network, which are offering much cheaper fees. there are a lot of small crypto users that cant afford those high gas fees.
so i strongly believe the eth team has already rectified this prob or has been working on it. they wont fail their supporters. thats my take on this. so the price surge is really around the corner.
And other projects who are also offering smart contracts will be chosen by others. It's very easy for those projects that leaned to ETHs network to get into another contract from other projects.
Just like Binance, built through ETHs smart contract and then had its own mainnet and then now offers the same feature as Ethereum. I also believe that one concern is the fee and they're making it cheaper once it's fully done but we have to wait for it to happen.