It is definitely the worst time to use ETH blockchain because of extreme transaction fees. The total marketcap and the market price has surged a lot, the volatility has a huge effect on the gas fees. The market is not going to calm down soon, the $8 fee is the new normal for all ETH token transactions. Even Paypal or Skrill has never charged me for single transaction with %40 fee.
i hope a solutions about this high transactions fees will coming from eth dev soon or later
and i think if the calculations of the transactions fees in usd not in gwei will be a good idea,
because we don't need to pay a high fees to send eth or erc20 tokens when the price of ethereum growing high
because if this become reallity, i believe the volatility on eth price will not affected the transactions fees on ethereum network