What is normal? In 2017 the average fee was already $3 so how did you come up with that idea that $1 is normal?  In 2015 "normal" was below $1, but in 2017 "normal" was $5. In a network that's constantly growing you can't expect the fees to stay at the same level.

Ordinals made it so that we're at least 4x the fee we would be paying if the fees were growing with the network, but even if we ban ordinals, don't expect fees to go back to $1.
In 2024 you can expect 2 things to happen. Bitcoin will go into another post-halving FOMO rally and fee will grow with as it went up in 2018 and 2021. It's more likely that $10 will become the new normal than $2. $1 fee? Forget about it.