A friend actually complained about ETH gas earlier, fetching over 200+ gwei. It's a bummer but understandable since most of the focus are on the altcoins right now and bitcoin is kinda benched and laying low after all the insane market movements it has had in the past few months. Like any other market events, I'm pretty sure the transaction fees will lower down as the hype around these altcoins subsides. Doge still is relatively cheap to use for transfers IMO compared to bitcoin.
Earlier today, I was able to send BTC at 3 sats/vbyte but I know the fee went even lower than that. That's less than $0.50. It's already back up to $4 but my point is that some people are probably still stuck to the notion that BTC transfers are always expensive. They don't realize they are spending more on their altcoins.
It's because bitcoin is experiencing more "screen time" on the market than these altcoins, hence why the fees are, for the most part, expensive.