There is a ton of excitement to try to be in the halvening block, so many people put their transactions with a lot of fees to try to be there.
The ones that lost the chance will be queued for the next one, which might explain the large fees for that block.
You can see the differences in sat/vB between these blocks:
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In this case, the "golden" block was mined by ViaBTC, congrats to them!.
A relieving explanation because it will be really saddening if this has a lot more to it. I have come to see that Indeed one of the biggest things than can stop Bitcoin adoption is its own transaction fee. Imagine if this was permanent, a whole bunch of enthusiasts will stop using Bitcoin because they had no choice.