That was a new norm in the Ethereum Network nowadays and this problem will not stop until Ethereum 2.0 development is not yet fully implemented the Ethereum Network Congestion resulted in very expensive gas fees that affecting us small-time Ethereum Network users nevermind those whales they can take care of themselves. IMO, the only temporary solution is to migrate in BSC or in the Tron Network in the meantime until this problem persists in Ethereum Network.
Yeah, luckily there are other coins that can perform much the same function that ETH does and TRX is just one of them. NEO is another and there are probably a dozen that I'm unable to recall since I don't own any of them. This is the first time I've heard of the ETH network being congested. Usually it's bitcoin's network that gets bogged down to the point of unusability, not ETH. I don't know what's going on, but it probably has something to do with all of the speculation that's been going on for the past couple of months.
Hopefully this will all rectify itself with time, and hopefully sooner rather than later.