I understand that the "network is congested" and im sure people are working on it. But in my opinion this should be top priority no 1! ~
What is my suggested solution? That the people that can actually do something about this, the people involved in the development, start to act like grownups and sort this issue once and for all!
There is a thing called blockchain trilemma. It consists of three factors; scalability, security, and decentralization. Increasing scalability tends to compromise security or decentralization. So it can't be a single thing getting first priority while ignoring the other one. We must also consider security and decentralization, and make all things balanced.
People who actively contribute to the developments surely trying to tackle the scalabilities issues. They didn't make it the main priority dues to some obscure reason, but simply a tricky technical challenge. As an attempt to improve scalabilities, people develop the solution in L2 layers like Lightning Network.