I think if Ethereum doesn't have these problems right now, do we even need to talk about it dying? Well, I also hope the dev team will solve this problem even faster. I still concretize my beliefs by buying more when I see a good price.
Fee issues are often discussed on ethereum, but fees are now quite cheap if we compare them before, and of course with the increase in prices on ethereum the fees given are quite high as well as other tokens.
I think they are on the right track. Remember when people used to complain so much about Bitcoin? And then segwit came and still people did not even really move to full segwit and services as well thought the same?
Layer 2 is too immature and people will soon find that out I think. Then when the tears flow,,, it will be too late. ETH is getting there it does not need to hurry at the expense of security.