It's true that Gas fees are ridiculously high since a long time now and we are not seeing a resolution to this. It is actually creating market gap for BNB. Nowadays BNB has become the most preferred chain to complete transactions for the token owners.
Vitalik is definitely aware of this issue and I am sure bigger plans are ongoing in the background. ETH 2.0 is definitely coming sonner than later. Otherwise there's literally no solution to the high gas fees.
This is their main concern right now and as soon as they see the decline of users on their graph, they will mainly focus to fix it because that's the only thing that will make them change their minds. When they only see that nothing has changed, and their users are still increasing despite their main problem, then they won't really give some time to fix it. It might be hard for the small investors but as everyone knows, when money involves, the one who gets the benefit will not be bothered about what really happening in his surroundings.