Mighty_crypt's reply shows you why. The people saying that fees are great and that miners are raking it in, are the ones looking at fiat values. It also perfectly illustrates why devs should not care too much about the opinions of miners since most are in it for the immediate profits and probably don't care too much about the long term value/stability/usefulness of a coin. While these fees are great in the short term from a mining perspective, if they aren't addressed quickly, it will kill momentum as the users of the platform migrate to more functional/economical competitors. I think we might be watching the process of the golden goose being killed, judging by the pushback/disinfo against EIP-1559 which is meant to address fee unpredictability.
I have been holding my ETH coins all along and have never converted to USD the past 3 years. And I am getting paid less and less ETH. They make it sound like miners are greedy and getting more and more payout from gas fees. In my case my only payouts are in ETH and I don't convert. I am taking a big risk on Ethereum. I've paid tens of thousands in electrical cost. Add in the mining hardware. I have over $50k invested in Ethereum and have not taken one cent in USD profit. If ETH goes back to $100 it will be a big hole for me.
The big issue is Ethereum's security is coming from the miners. A compromise is proposed where EIP-1559 is accepted by miners as is with one caveat: Add 1 ETH to the block reward increasing it from 2 to 3. Gas fees will be lower and miners will have an incentive to stay mining Ethereum. If miners abandon in droves a 51% attack could occur w/ possible double spending and then Ethereum is dead in the water. It is very foolish of developers to claim they are overpaying for security. Over $200 billion is now at stake why risk it by exposing the security of the network? Bitcoin is paying a great deal for its security. Security is paramount for this to work.