those fee's are not really from that many independent individuals . they are the same groups as the mining pool managers. basically making high fee's to pay themselves back.. thus not much loss is incurred when producing high fee transactions becasue they are the sender and receiver of fee's
Not sure I follow your point here. It seems that most of the high transaction fees are from "BRC20" inscriptions
no
the memes took up alot of data
the brc json is about 60bytes
so no its not the brxc crap
heck while writing this i checked the latest block and first tx was this
https://www.blockchain.com/explorer/transactions/btc/32cc9bc0c18baffee995342cd1ed1da0e8e94feeb572d69c10e41b12a2fb7571paying over 1000sats/byte for a simple 1in-2 out with no added bloat data