I think the high fee issue is never going away.
It may never go away completely, but it won't always be this bad, and mark my words: degens won't always be this interested in ordinals/inscriptions. They will move on to something else once the easy money to milk has dried up. Because that's what degens do.
i don't know what's causing them but you think monkeys?

Haha no. It is 99.9% BRC20 mints. The real entity to blame now is Binance since they started listing $ORDI token.
To get things back on topic, fees are totally fricken out of control at the moment, JFC.
how many us dollars is that? i'm lazy today.
Well, this is what one of my wallets currently recommends for a "high priority" fee:

not cool, unless your philipma1957, I suppose.