Your advice on how to avoid paying high fees for bitcoin transactions is not to make any transactions. That advice isn’t really useful and it doesn’t seem to be a solution for people who still want to make bitcoin transactions.

Your goals for long term bitcoin accumulation may not be the same goals of the next person. Although a lot of bitcoin holders may have plans to hold their coins, a good number of them use their coins for anonymous and other transactions.
There are some free and paid services that helps in accelerating your transactions. A list of such services would be more helpful.