First, as the title states clearly that Bitcoin network fees are not high but it is you as a holder who can't afford it, the reason being that many newbies and some few old members have mistaken this current network condition to mean a crisis, the reality of things is that, most Bitcoin old term holder are not complaining because they already have experience of how the Bitcoin networks work per time, and if they want to make a transaction they rather just pay high fees and move on rather than paying low fees with long time of waiting because a lot of transaction volumes that have higher fees than yours are already broadcast into the network so it takes long time before getting your transaction confirm.
We prefer Bitcoin over fiat because of many reasons like decentralization, low fee, available globally, sending and receiving without restrictions. Now one reason (low fee) is missed which is not good for Bitcoin. If I want to sell my 50$ btc which I hold in my wallet and I need urgent payment then There is two options. pay more than 10$ fee or wait until this problem solved. Now why I choose btc where i cannot fulfill my need properly. We love btc but that's not mean that we will support every limitations despite of thinking how to solve it
I hope that a long time from now, most newbies will stop making news from this kind of temporary network congestion, and start focusing more on how to contribute to making the Bitcoin network cleaner and globally adaptable to all, for me I don't see any negativity in bitcoin but rather a lot of opportunity to develop along with Bitcoin as an alternative among another alternatives.
How will people accept it if we want to convince other in current situation? We will told him that you have to pay 20$ fee for avery transaction, what do you think he will accept it? Any shop will be convinced to start accepting btc in current situation?