After that fork then lots had anticipated that the fees would be going down but we havent seen that one but instead it did really stay up high for a while or even up to this moment.So it was really just for the sake
of burning and not literally affecting or resolving those high gas fees issues?

For now i've been skipping on making use of erc20 transactions due to this very common reason and for sure other people too had the same problem and came up with common solution which is to
make use of another coins when making up transaction.

Its never been feasible nor ideal on making use this for now and there are more better alternatives.