You are right transactions are really shooting up and in my opinion, that's due to the listing of BRC-20 tokens on big centralized exchanges like the listing of ORDI on Binance. As we know when the transaction of these tokens is taken out the load on the BTC blockchain will increase and the network will be more congested than before.

Resulting in a high fee, but overall I would say what we can do for know, as those who have no other options might have to pay $14 in fee (maximum as the current fee is) and if you have the option to delay the transactions then you can go for no priority TX which will cost around 0.5$ Overall, I would say the increment in BTC TX was written before in our luck but it will come that fast was not in my expectations.

Overall, we should find ways to reduce it like using the LN or making payments in different time zones when the TX fee is lower than before. Talking about spams, this is not something new, as BTC blockchain is trained for it as it has limit of it and when the spam transaction limit will meet then network will not take anymore spam TX in it.