Why do you think it's not working as "advertised"?
I didn't say that it isn't working as advertised. I am looking at my post again, and I wrote it in a silly way which seems to have confused you. The point is, the network and the miners do what they are supposed to do. They fill the blocks with transactions that pay the biggest fees. I don't like having to pay 300 sat/vByte, especially for multiple input/output transactions, but it is what it is. Bitcoin's bottleneck, which is the 10-min block time and block size is paying the price right now whether we like it or not.
Even without Ordinals, at some point in the future, we will have people transacting millions of dollars whereby paying $20 fees to have a final settlement of 10M on the most secured blockchain on the planet earth is considered dirt cheap, where the plebs like us who want to send $200 worth of BTC find it stupid to pay 10% in fees.
I would have no problem with the first example, but the second one isn't good enough. People in some countries would be happy if they earned $200 in a full month of work, and paying $20 in fees would be a small fortune for them. Unacceptable, unless the future of Bitcoin is to be used by the rich and those in the Western nations.