I agree with you, everything has pros and cons, and we cannot ask bitcoin to be so perfect that it doesn't have any disadvantages. If we want decentralization and maximum privacy, we need to make trade-offs, and high fees are the price we have to pay when using bitcoin.
bitcoin does not require high fee's
its infact high fee's that pushes people away from using bitcoin and using other networks that makes there be less bitcoin utility and less users securing the network because they dont use the bitcoin network... so it doesnt help with decentalisation of bitcoin
if people want to cry that paying $50 for a hard drive to store 2 decades of transactions is costly but ok with paying $50 for a single transaction.. they have their math backwards