After the price of Ethereum went above $1000 that's where the disaster for users came,
That's normal whenever a price pump comes, expect that even those unpopular chains will also get an increase in fee if they don't scale up and when their demand increases.
I honestly think it's more of a problem with the fact that ethereum price just simply gets too high, current gwei required for ethereum was normal back in the days, it's just around
10 gwei or so, and it's become abnormal after it went that high and even if scalability increased, it's still the same problem until today.
even the release of second layer solution didn't do much either, I guess we still have long way to go until this problems gets resolved honestly.
at the meantime, just use the second layer and we're set, though doesn't mean every token is available in these 2nd layer.