Now that Bitcoin fees have come back down, what was the cause of the increase? Was it runes and ordinals?
Has the volume of these derivatives declined to the point that fees are now what they used to be?
If the price of the Bitcoin fee goes up, people will tell you it's Ordinal, BRC and many more causes it, if it goes down too, you see people saying this or that which I don't like listening to again. What I know is that congestion is causing the increased fee which the miners can't be innocent of. They are the tyrant I know that has monopolised the system and found ways to manipulate it while people blame it on assumptions.
About the falling fee, it is natural that economics at times takes its course as it gets worse to the point that people are no longer transacting with Bitcoin but altcoins and the alternative sane channels, so what do you expect? They force the price down because the heavy fee is not commensurate with the volume again (low gain for miners).
They know what they are doing, they will let the dust settle for a while and find a way to do the same thing even if Ordinal, Rune etc are stable.