This is a very old debate (read nonsense), it's just that now some "celebrities" are on board making the same nonsense up so it is trending once again. They also always forget that the miners who pay their electric and other bills in fiat are actually earning a lot more money every cycle even without the fees and with reward cutting in half.

For example in the halving before the last when miners were getting paid 6.25BTC per block (the reward alone) the price was barely $10k meaning they were earning $62,500 that is while today that they are earning 3.25BTC per block and price is $100k they are actually earning $325,000.

It is not just stupid to claim fee or block reward has to increase so that miners would stick around, but it is also malicious to say it because it is an attack on one of Bitcoin's main principles.

If fees skyrocket and stay up, the "regular people" would simply abandon bitcoin and use the next best thing. Bitcoin will be left with scammers turning it into another shitcoin like ethereum filled with nonsense while the number of nodes drop significantly pushing bitcoin toward centralization. Eventually developers who don't believe in not-scaling the blocks and don't believe that the "Ordinals Attack is a solution to scaling" would create a new Bitcoin and it replaces the old one...