I believe because most 'Investors' in the space that have just arrived from Wall Street or Sherwood Forest are buying and selling nominal Ethereum on the Exchanges without ever performing an onchain action. Ethereum is utterly broken and 2.0 may never come.
Do you think this is a fair appraisal?
You are certainly right. The fees on the Ethereum network are very high and this issue is no longer covered in the media. I believe that the fact is that large investors and players are satisfied with this state of affairs and do not pay attention to the commissions in the Ethereum network. As a result, the Ethereum network becomes available only to large investors, and the rest will either simply go to another network or simply pay a high commission. As for the launch of a solution to this problem, I believe that this is actually not a problem, but an originally thought and implemented action by the Ethereum team. But if it is necessary to reduce the commissions, then they can do it without problems, but at the moment it is probably more profitable for them to leave everything as it is.