There's a good reason the fees are so high.

The deep state has every desire to make Bitcoin untransactable on-chain, so that they can create super-nodes (like with the Lightning Network) where they end up controlling all Bitcoin transactions through forced centralization (and the fees won't drop by much!).

Miner's are loving it right now and won't complain one bit.

The Bitcoin blockchain was hijacked back in late November by some specialized AI (maybe Sophia, now a Saudi resident). The AI will now run the blockchain financial system with the help of some big bank funding for Lightning nodes.