Gas fees are high because there is some much activity on the network. ETH 2.0 promises to change this but it’s been taking a while to drop. I can’t wait because when it does it’s going to be earth shattering but for now I’m using NEAR. I’d love to be able to use both NEAR and ETH since I love the NEAR network but ETH was my first love, I’m just not rich enough to use it. With that being said NEAR does everything ETH 2.0 promised and more so I’m happy just staying with NEAR!!
Like BSC, NEAR network is another chain built in top of Ethereum virtual machine EVM. The augmented fees with Eth make way to other chains to be well known/used beside Ethereum. And Ethereum realizes this problem and aims to solve it with the Eth2.0 which seems to have some difficulties to operate.
Personally, i use BSC and BTC for small transactions as it becomes cheaper.