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?
My opinion is that this absurd Ethereum fee has been persisting for a long time (2-3 years now) that journalist think that making a topic about won't be shocking or new. People already know the Ethereum is like this for a long time. There's been enough articles and news talking about it in the past that it wouldn't make much sense to make more.