Well, any educated user would know that it didn't need to be this way...
See this following satoshi post quoted:
The current system where every user is a network node is not the intended configuration for large scale. That would be like every Usenet user runs their own NNTP server. The design supports letting users just be users. The more burden it is to run a node, the fewer nodes there will be. Those few nodes will be big server farms. The rest will be client nodes that only do transactions and don't generate.
Besides, 10 minutes is too long to verify that payment is good. It needs to be as fast as swiping a credit card is today.
See the snack machine thread, I outline how a payment processor could verify payments well enough, actually really well (much lower fraud rate than credit cards), in something like 10 seconds or less. If you don't believe me or don't get it, I don't have time to try to convince you, sorry.
http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=423.msg3819#msg3819The romanticized idea of decentralization we have now is not what the original vision of bitcoin was. Satoshi himself was ready to sacrifice some decentralization so long as transactions remained immutable. If bitcoin's ability to transact cash is reduced to being worse than banks, then what's the point of calling it a
A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System anymore?
This brings us to what's causing the current ongoing issue of high fees. It's not high demand and it's not miners wanting to charge extra for "keeping the chain secure".
It's actually ordinal transactions that put NFT and token data on bitcoin's chain and take away space from actual transactions.
Moreover, by abusing Taproot OP codes and SegWit witness data space, they even get discounts that a regular transaction wouldn't.
See for instance this transaction:
https://mempool.space/tx/77e996de08c48ed282a7b8bc88ca199712a15fa68babb10a0b3ee760674cf21bThe fee would have normally been above 300 USD, but by abusing these newish updates on bitcoin they get away with only paying for a fraction of the space they're actually taking in the blockchain.
Satoshi was also for imposing limits on abuses for what could get in bitcoin's chain as a valid transactions. So if ordinals are the single point of concern on what's causing this problem, then they should be addressed. That's 100% in line with bitcoin's vision.